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From: Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>
Subject: [RFC] perf top and deleted binaries
Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 11:28:23 -0700
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For long running binaries which may have been replaced or deleted, today 
perf top spits out a warning and doesn't show anything. For eg:

test.c:

main()
{
	while(1);
}

gcc -O2 test.c -o test
./test &
gcc -O2 test.c -o test	# overwrite the binary
perf top -p <pid>

shows nothing. It could instead show:

100% <unresolved>	test

like perf record/report would show for the same test case. Comments?

 -Arun