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perf symbols: Ignore stripped vmlinux and fallback to kallsyms 

If a vmlinux is stripped, perf will use it and ignore kallsyms. We
end up with useless profiles where everything maps to a few
runtime symbols:

    63.39%       swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] hcall_real_table
     4.90%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] hcall_real_table
     4.44%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __sched_text_start
     3.72%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __run_at_kexec

Detect this case and fallback to using kallsyms. This fixes the issue:

    62.81%       swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] snooze_loop
     4.44%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] __schedule
     0.91%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] _switch
     0.73%      beam.smp  [kernel.kallsyms]   [k] put_prev_entity

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140909085929.4a5a81f0@kryten
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Anton Blanchard 2014-09-09 08:59:29 +10:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 512fe36537
commit d0b0d0406f
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tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
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@ -717,6 +717,14 @@ int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map,
symbols__delete(&dso->symbols[map->type]);
if (!syms_ss->symtab) {
/*
* If the vmlinux is stripped, fail so we will fall back
* to using kallsyms. The vmlinux runtime symbols aren't
* of much use.
*/
if (dso->kernel)
goto out_elf_end;
syms_ss->symtab = syms_ss->dynsym;
syms_ss->symshdr = syms_ss->dynshdr;
}