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author | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-07-22 16:48:16 -0300 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2015-07-23 22:51:11 -0300 |
commit | 4263cece22e3da94f16fbbcf71ce3807946d3ef3 (patch) | |
tree | 9d6e0db08577eefc8b3dc6112aabc15d790dc181 /tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c | |
parent | ccb3a8294a7d346257b526702eabcb2faeb721ac (diff) |
perf tools: Stop reading the kallsyms data from perf.data
As it is not used anymore, since 'perf script' switched to asking
libtraceevent to use tools/perf's symbol resolution routines.
Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4ilhofz4b7o8yokvutjt9yzz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c index 54d9e9b548a8..b67a0ccf5ab9 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c @@ -162,25 +162,23 @@ out: static int read_proc_kallsyms(struct pevent *pevent) { unsigned int size; - char *buf; size = read4(pevent); if (!size) return 0; - - buf = malloc(size + 1); - if (buf == NULL) - return -1; - - if (do_read(buf, size) < 0) { - free(buf); - return -1; - } - buf[size] = '\0'; - - parse_proc_kallsyms(pevent, buf, size); - - free(buf); + /* + * Just skip it, now that we configure libtraceevent to use the + * tools/perf/ symbol resolver. + * + * We need to skip it so that we can continue parsing old perf.data + * files, that contains this /proc/kallsyms payload. + * + * Newer perf.data files will have just the 4-bytes zeros "kallsyms + * payload", so that older tools can continue reading it and interpret + * it as "no kallsyms payload is present". + */ + lseek(input_fd, size, SEEK_CUR); + trace_data_size += size; return 0; } |