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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: acme@infradead.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, acme@redhat.com,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, efault@gmx.de, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf top: Properly notify the user that vmlinux is missing
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:55:26 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100315.115526.52182155.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1268664418-28328-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 11:46:58 -0300

> [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s n_tty_write > /tmp/bla
> objdump: '[kernel.kallsyms]': No such file
> 
> Now this is what the user gets:
> 
> [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]# perf top -s n_tty_write
> Can't annotate n_tty_write: No vmlinux file was found in the path:
> [0] vmlinux
> [1] /boot/vmlinux
> [2] /boot/vmlinux-2.6.33-rc5
> [3] /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc5/build/vmlinux
> [4] /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.33-rc5/vmlinux
> [root@doppio linux-2.6-tip]#

Arnaldo, if perf top can use the kallsyms to do it's normal task, why
can't it use that for symbol annotations too?  Isn't there enough
information available?


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-15 18:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-15 14:46 [PATCH 1/2] perf record: Enable the enable_on_exec flag if record forks the target Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-15 14:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] perf top: Properly notify the user that vmlinux is missing Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-15 18:55   ` David Miller [this message]
2010-03-15 19:21     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-15 19:26       ` David Miller
2010-03-16  9:46         ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-16  9:51           ` David Miller
2010-03-16  9:55             ` Ingo Molnar
2010-03-16  9:58               ` David Miller
2010-03-15 15:15 ` [tip:perf/core] perf record: Enable the enable_on_exec flag if record forks the target tip-bot for Eric B Munson

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