Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf tools: Decompress kernel module when reading DSO data

[Namhyung Kim]

Hi Jiri,

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 8:29 PM, Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 01, 2017 at 06:06:04PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
>> @@ -399,6 +438,7 @@ static int __open_dso(struct dso *dso, struct machine 
>> *machine)
>>       int fd;
>>       char *root_dir = (char *)"";
>>       char *name = malloc(PATH_MAX);
>> +     bool needs_unlink = false;
>>
>>       if (!name)
>>               return -ENOMEM;
>> @@ -415,7 +455,23 @@ static int __open_dso(struct dso *dso, struct machine 
>> *machine)
>>       if (!is_regular_file(name))
>>               return -EINVAL;
>>
>> +     if (dso__needs_decompress(dso)) {
>> +             char buf[32];
>> +
>> +             fd = dso__decompress_kmodule(dso, name, buf, sizeof(buf));
>> +             if (fd < 0)
>
>                         free(name)

ok.

>
>> +                     return -1;
>> +
>> +             close(fd);
>> +             strcpy(name, buf);
>
> also why not use name directly instead of buf?

The name should have original compressed filename and buf will be set
to a new decompressed name.

Thanks,
Namhyung