Re: [RFC PATCH] perf tui: Annotate entries in callchains

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com>]

Em Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 10:15:53AM -0700, Stephane Eranian escreveu:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:39 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> <arnaldo.melo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mar 19, 2015 9:34 PM, "Stephane Eranian" <eranian@google.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Arnaldo,
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
> >> <acme@kernel.org> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi Stephane,
> >> >
> >> >         This patch, together with what is in my perf/core branch, should
> >> > implement that feature we talked about recently, i.e. to allow
> >> > annotating entries in callchains, please take a look at see if you think
> >> > it is ok,
> >> >
> >> I tried on tip.git and a simple example. It does what I wanted.
> >> I will try on more complex test cases.
> >> Thanks for implementing this quickly.
> >
> > Thanks for testing, please let us know if you have further suggestions,
> >
> Ok, it does not work.
> I think it works as long as the caller you want to annotate is in the
> same module.
> But suppose, I am on malloc() (libc) and I want to see a caller of
> malloc(), it will
> propose 'annotate bar()', but will still show me the code of libc:malloc.
> 
> In my earlier test, everything worked because the callee and caller were in the
> same module.
> 
> Could you fix this?

I thought that was covered because it deals with a "map_symbol" struct,
where it finds both the symbol and the DSO where it came from, etc.

Checking that now...


- Arnaldo