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authorRichard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>2014-04-26 21:17:55 +0400
committerJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>2014-04-30 18:49:29 +0400
commit61d4290cc1f10588147b76b385875f06827d47ff (patch)
tree1ecb38dfa2a5cdd6046395fc17a625a86746a378 /tools/perf
parent611ec127165b572f02823e152d6774e2145305a3 (diff)
downloadlinux-61d4290cc1f10588147b76b385875f06827d47ff.tar.xz
perf machine: Search for modules in %s/lib/modules/%s
Modules installed outside of the kernel's build system should go into "%s/lib/modules/%s/extra", but at present, perf will only look at them when they are in "%s/lib/modules/%s/kernel". Lets encourage good citizenship by relaxing this requirement to "%s/lib/modules/%s". This way open source modules that are out-of-tree have no incentive to start populating a directory reserved for in-kernel modules and I can stop hex-editing my system's perf binary when profiling OSS out-of-tree modules. Feedback from Namhyung Kim correctly revealed that the hex-edits that I had been doing meant that perf was also traversing the build and source symlinks in %s/lib/modules/%s. That is undesireable, so we explicitly exclude them from traversal with a minor tweak to the traversal routine. Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398532675-13684-1-git-send-email-ryao@gentoo.org Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/machine.c16
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index a53cd0b8c151..27c2a5efe450 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ static char *get_kernel_version(const char *root_dir)
}
static int map_groups__set_modules_path_dir(struct map_groups *mg,
- const char *dir_name)
+ const char *dir_name, int depth)
{
struct dirent *dent;
DIR *dir = opendir(dir_name);
@@ -742,7 +742,15 @@ static int map_groups__set_modules_path_dir(struct map_groups *mg,
!strcmp(dent->d_name, ".."))
continue;
- ret = map_groups__set_modules_path_dir(mg, path);
+ /* Do not follow top-level source and build symlinks */
+ if (depth == 0) {
+ if (!strcmp(dent->d_name, "source") ||
+ !strcmp(dent->d_name, "build"))
+ continue;
+ }
+
+ ret = map_groups__set_modules_path_dir(mg, path,
+ depth + 1);
if (ret < 0)
goto out;
} else {
@@ -786,11 +794,11 @@ static int machine__set_modules_path(struct machine *machine)
if (!version)
return -1;
- snprintf(modules_path, sizeof(modules_path), "%s/lib/modules/%s/kernel",
+ snprintf(modules_path, sizeof(modules_path), "%s/lib/modules/%s",
machine->root_dir, version);
free(version);
- return map_groups__set_modules_path_dir(&machine->kmaps, modules_path);
+ return map_groups__set_modules_path_dir(&machine->kmaps, modules_path, 0);
}
static int machine__create_module(void *arg, const char *name, u64 start)