On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 05:10:10PM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote: > Hi > > Here are some patches that improve perf tools > handling of relocation. > > This has become an issue as mentioned in this > thread: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=139030004314756 > > > It looks like the changes I made to vmlinux and > module mapping to allow object code to be read > broke the symbol annotation for relocated kernels. > The first patch fixes that. > > There were some other issues though: > - ref_reloc_sym was not always set up > - mustn't use kcore if the kernel has moved > - kallsyms is not unique for a given > buildid > > These things need more testing but I thought it was > worth getting comments now. > > > Adrian Hunter (8): > perf tools: Fix symbol annotation for relocated kernel > perf tools: Add kallsyms__get_function_start() > perf tools: Add machine__get_kallsyms_filename() > perf tools: Set up ref_reloc_sym in machine__create_kernel_maps() > perf report: Get ref_reloc_sym from kernel map > perf tools: Prevent the use of kcore if the kernel has moved > perf tools: test does not need to set up ref_reloc_sym > perf tools: Adjust kallsyms for relocated kernel
cannot say much for the code changes (look ok ;-) ), but it fixed the issue for me Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]> jirka -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
