Re: [PATCH] perf: Fallback to MAP__FUNCTION if daddr maps are NULL

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 11:25:11PM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> As we run "perf c2c" on more applications, we noticed we're missing significant
> samples from a common customer's application.  Looking at the
> /proc/<pid>/maps file for the app, we see "rwxs" and "rwxp" permissions on many
> of the shared memory & heap regions, and on all the thread stacks.
> 
> Because those regions have the "x" bit set, perf marks them with a MAP_FUNCTION
> type.  Hence ip_resolve_data() never finds load or store events coming from
> them.
> 
> We fixed this by re-calling thread__find_addr_location with MAP__FUNCTION in
> the case where map is NULL as a last ditch effort to map the sample before
> giving up and dropping it.
> 
> Reported-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

thanks,
jirka