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author | Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> | 2011-06-01 21:43:46 +0200 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2011-08-11 08:58:03 -0300 |
commit | f57b05ed532ccf3b3e22878a5678ca10de50ad29 (patch) | |
tree | 97fed90fc6181939af5a29dfc9624163832b34e6 /tools/perf/util/symbol.h | |
parent | fc8ed7be738ffb1b3b0140ed2de6def38b9a7101 (diff) |
perf report: Use properly build_id kernel binaries
If we bring the recorded perf data together with kernel binary from another
machine using:
on server A:
perf archive
on server B:
tar xjvf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ~/.debug
the build_id kernel dso is not properly recognized during the "perf report"
command on server B.
The reason is, that build_id dsos are added during the session initialization,
while the kernel maps are created during the sample event processing.
The machine__create_kernel_maps functions ends up creating new dso object for
kernel, but it does not check if we already have one added by build_id
processing.
Also the build_id reading ABI quirk added in commit:
- commit b25114817a73bbd2b84ce9dba02ee1ef8989a947
perf build-id: Add quirk to deal with perf.data file format breakage
populates the "struct build_id_event::pid" with 0, which
is later interpreted as DEFAULT_GUEST_KERNEL_ID.
This is not always correct, so it's better to guess the pid
value based on the "struct build_id_event::header::misc" value.
- Tested with data generated on x86 kernel version v2.6.34
and reported back on x86_64 current kernel.
- Not tested for guest kernel case.
Note the problem stays for PERF_RECORD_MMAP events recorded by perf that
does not use proper pid (HOST_KERNEL_ID/DEFAULT_GUEST_KERNEL_ID). They are
misinterpreted within the current perf code. Probably there's not much we
can do about that.
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110601194346.GB1934@jolsa.brq.redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/symbol.h')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h index 325ee36a9d2..4f377d92e75 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h @@ -155,7 +155,6 @@ struct dso { }; struct dso *dso__new(const char *name); -struct dso *dso__new_kernel(const char *name); void dso__delete(struct dso *dso); int dso__name_len(const struct dso *dso); |