linux/tools
Namhyung Kim 0a7e6d1b68 perf tools: Check recorded kernel version when finding vmlinux
Currently vmlinux_path__init() only tries to find vmlinux file from
current directory, /boot and some canonical directories with version
number of the running kernel.  This can be a problem when reporting old
data recorded on a kernel version not running currently.

We can use --symfs option for this but it's annoying for user to do it
always.  As we already have the info in the perf.data file, it can be
changed to use it for the search automatically.

Before:

  $ perf report
  ...
  # Samples: 4K of event 'cpu-clock'
  # Event count (approx.): 1067250000
  #
  # Overhead  Command     Shared Object      Symbol
  # ........  ..........  .................  ..............................
      71.87%     swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] recover_probed_instruction

After:

  # Overhead  Command     Shared Object      Symbol
  # ........  ..........  .................  ....................
      71.87%     swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_safe_halt

This requires to change signature of symbol__init() to receive struct
perf_session_env *.

Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407825645-24586-14-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2014-08-13 16:42:21 -03:00
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cgroup cgroups: fix cgroup_event_listener error handling 2013-01-08 10:00:44 -08:00
firewire tools/firewire: nosy-dump: check for allocation failure 2012-12-02 20:10:18 +01:00
hv Tools: hv: Handle the case when the target file exists correctly 2014-04-16 14:10:36 -07:00
include perf tools: Move ACCESS_ONCE from perf.h header 2014-05-05 17:49:07 +02:00
lguest tools/lguest: offer VIRTIO_F_ANY_LAYOUT for net device. 2013-07-15 11:18:32 +09:30
lib Linux 3.16-rc7 2014-07-28 10:00:33 +02:00
net tools: bpf_jit_disasm: increase image buffer size 2014-05-16 16:44:08 -04:00
nfsd NFSD: Added fault injection script 2011-11-07 21:10:47 -05:00
perf perf tools: Check recorded kernel version when finding vmlinux 2014-08-13 16:42:21 -03:00
power Merge branches 'acpi-tools' and 'pm-tools' 2014-06-03 23:13:34 +02:00
scripts tools lib traceevent: Add global QUIET_CC_FPIC build output 2013-12-19 16:18:10 -03:00
testing Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2014-08-04 15:55:08 -07:00
thermal/tmon tmon: set umask to a reasonable value 2014-07-01 22:00:51 +08:00
usb tools: ffs-test: fix header values endianess 2014-06-30 13:23:58 -05:00
virtio tools: Consolidate types.h 2014-05-01 21:22:39 +02:00
vm tools/vm/page-types.c: catch sigbus if raced with truncate 2014-06-04 16:53:51 -07:00
Makefile tools/liblockdep: Build liblockdep from tools/Makefile 2014-05-08 13:34:45 -04:00