From 00dc865798a31d3d5300dd5d70166a4a85f76a20 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Namhyung Kim Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2014 10:14:32 +0900 Subject: 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 Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephane Eranian Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415063674-17206-7-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/util/symbol.h') 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, -- cgit v1.2.3