Re: [PATCH 3/3] perf tools: Make 'struct map_shared' truly shared

[Jiri Olsa]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 12:46:19PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > We may need a COW operation for this (hopefully rare) case.
> > 
> > so the jitted mmaps are inserted into the data file
> > and processed during report where they can overload
> > existing maps - thats detected before addition in:
> > 
> >   thread__insert_map
> >     map_groups__fixup_overlappings
> >       - which uses COW way -> map__clone(map, false);
> >         to create new map
> > 
> > other fixups to maps are being done only for kernel maps,
> > where we dont have a problem, because there's only one copy
> 
> I assume the same is true for /tmp/perf-* processing?
> 

perf-*.map processing adds only symbol for dso,
it does not touch maps, so we're fine

  dso__load -> dso__load_perf_map

jirka