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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2014-11-04 04:14:32 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2014-11-05 16:14:08 +0300
commit00dc865798a31d3d5300dd5d70166a4a85f76a20 (patch)
tree467eff48f5f535336ec251c6772de53105b91f89 /tools/perf/util/symbol.h
parente195fac8077f034b0160bf420bdf450ae476701d (diff)
downloadlinux-00dc865798a31d3d5300dd5d70166a4a85f76a20.tar.xz
perf record: Do not save pathname in ./debug/.build-id directory for vmlinux
When perf record finishes a session, it pre-processes samples in order to write build-id info from DSOs that had samples. During this process it'll call map__load() for the kernel map, and it ends up calling dso__load_vmlinux_path() which replaces dso->long_name. But this function checks kernel's build-id before searching vmlinux path so it'll end up with a cryptic name, the pathname for the entry in the ~/.debug cache, which can be confusing to users. This patch adds a flag to skip the build-id check during record, so that it'll have the original vmlinux path for the kernel dso->long_name, not the entry in the ~/.debug cache. Before: # perf record -va sleep 3 mmap size 528384B [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.196 MB perf.data (~8545 samples) ] Looking at the vmlinux_path (7 entries long) Using /home/namhyung/.debug/.build-id/f0/6e17aa50adf4d00b88925e03775de107611551 for symbols After: # perf record -va sleep 3 mmap size 528384B [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.193 MB perf.data (~8432 samples) ] Looking at the vmlinux_path (7 entries long) Using /lib/modules/3.16.4-1-ARCH/build/vmlinux for symbols Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415063674-17206-7-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/symbol.h')
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
index eb2c19bf8d90..ded3ca7266de 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ struct symbol_conf {
unsigned short nr_events;
bool try_vmlinux_path,
ignore_vmlinux,
+ ignore_vmlinux_buildid,
show_kernel_path,
use_modules,
sort_by_name,