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authorAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2019-02-24 18:37:19 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2019-02-25 16:58:28 +0300
commit94816add0005595ea33fc8456519be582330401e (patch)
tree2b6d96ee56bb88f1c4e1044b5ef62a29528d65bb /tools/perf/util/util.c
parent4b6ac811bce46c83811b83cdf87b41251596b9fc (diff)
downloadlinux-94816add0005595ea33fc8456519be582330401e.tar.xz
perf tools: Add perf_exe() helper to find perf binary
Also convert one existing user. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190224153722.27020-9-andi@firstfloor.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/util.c')
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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c
index 706818693086..d388f80d8703 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c
@@ -568,3 +568,13 @@ out:
return tip;
}
+
+char *perf_exe(char *buf, int len)
+{
+ int n = readlink("/proc/self/exe", buf, len);
+ if (n > 0) {
+ buf[n] = 0;
+ return buf;
+ }
+ return strcpy(buf, "perf");
+}