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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-05-17 17:52:26 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2016-05-20 17:43:54 +0300
commit45e90056904b12d8dd74e0d2ea6dfd5e4394104d (patch)
treeeff08ab0ba5d9ffeddbe656e6072ef02d6e0334a /tools/perf
parenta29d5c9b8167dbc21a7ca8c0302e3799f9063b4e (diff)
downloadlinux-45e90056904b12d8dd74e0d2ea6dfd5e4394104d.tar.xz
perf machine: Do not bail out if not managing to read ref reloc symbol
This means the user can't access /proc/kallsyms, for instance, because /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict is set to 1. Instead leave the ref_reloc_sym as NULL and code using it will cope. This allows 'perf trace' to work on such systems for !root, the only issue would be when trying to resolve kernel symbols, which happens, for instance, in some libtracevent plugins. A warning for that case will be provided in the next patch in this series. Noticed in Ubuntu 16.04, that comes with kptr_restrict=1. Reported-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-knpu3z4iyp2dxpdfm798fac4@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/machine.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index 7ba9fadb68af..b277984aaa93 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -1135,10 +1135,10 @@ int machine__create_kernel_maps(struct machine *machine)
{
struct dso *kernel = machine__get_kernel(machine);
const char *name;
- u64 addr = machine__get_running_kernel_start(machine, &name);
+ u64 addr;
int ret;
- if (!addr || kernel == NULL)
+ if (kernel == NULL)
return -1;
ret = __machine__create_kernel_maps(machine, kernel);
@@ -1160,8 +1160,9 @@ int machine__create_kernel_maps(struct machine *machine)
*/
map_groups__fixup_end(&machine->kmaps);
- if (maps__set_kallsyms_ref_reloc_sym(machine->vmlinux_maps, name,
- addr)) {
+ addr = machine__get_running_kernel_start(machine, &name);
+ if (!addr) {
+ } else if (maps__set_kallsyms_ref_reloc_sym(machine->vmlinux_maps, name, addr)) {
machine__destroy_kernel_maps(machine);
return -1;
}