Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] perf: Add 'perf kmem' tool

Ingo Molnar
2009-11-23T07:33:29Z

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> > I havent tried this - is this really possible to do on an x86 box,
> > with a typical distro? Can i install say Fedora PowerPC debuginfo
> > packages on an x86 box, while also having the x86 debuginfo packages
> > there?
>
> The best option would be to allow to specify a chroot parameter, where
> we can specify the embedded root filesystem on out machine.
>
> I'm not even sure embedded distros even have this separate debug
> package crazyness, you simply build the distro with or without
> debuginfo.

yes - we could use -R/--root (which opreport has as well), as a
mandatory path prefix to all DSO/debuginfo searches.

Ingo