Re: [PATCH 1/3] perf tools: Allow vmlinux to fallback to kallsyms on NO_LIBELF=1

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:02:00AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Can you try the patch below?
> 

> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
> index c9541fea9514..b55f96d49503 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-minimal.c
> @@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map __maybe_unused,
>  
>  	if (filename__read_build_id(ss->name, build_id, BUILD_ID_SIZE) > 0) {
>  		dso__set_build_id(dso, build_id);
> -		return 1;
> +		return 0;
>  	}
>  	return 0;
>  }

removing libelf-dev and recompiling to verify its broken again, then I
made this change, recompiled and tried again and that seems to work.

Control flow seems redundant though, might as well remove the entire
return stmt.

Still wondering why the generic code accepts DSOs without symbols
though. But whatever ;-)