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From: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@arm.com>
To: "Vuille, Martin (Martin)" <vmartin@avaya.com>
Cc: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>,
	"linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org"
	<linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Not finding symbol information
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2018 17:35:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180205173541.ce7e8fdf3d4c9230a2a70c96@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30C2D590D16A5C46ADFE6521910377989260A050@AZ-US1EXMB02.global.avaya.com>

On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 03:30:02 +0000
"Vuille, Martin (Martin)" <vmartin@avaya.com> wrote:

> BTW, I found some odd behaviour around that too. 'perf report --symfs PATH' is
> looking for the buildid cache in 'PATH/$HOME/.debug', not '$HOME/.debug'.
> Not sure whether that's design intent or a bug.

Yeah, that doesn't sound right: the manpage just says "Look for files
with symbols relative to this directory."

> > It might also be worth trying running the report on the target, if possible.  I'll
> > try and take a look next week...I need to revive my
> > arm32 boxes...
> 
> Unfortunately the stripped binaries just barely fit on the target, so getting the
> debug info on there is out of the question.

OK, in that case can you try cherry-picking commit 9b200653518e "perf
symbols: Take into account symfs setting when reading file build ID"?
It looks highly relevant but I haven't been able to make sure yet.

Thanks,

Kim

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-05 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-02 14:06 Not finding symbol information Vuille, Martin (Martin)
2018-02-02 14:31 ` Milian Wolff
2018-02-03  0:38   ` Kim Phillips
2018-02-03  3:30     ` Vuille, Martin (Martin)
2018-02-05 23:35       ` Kim Phillips [this message]
2018-02-06  2:13         ` Vuille, Martin (Martin)
2018-02-06 13:09         ` Vuille, Martin (Martin)
2018-02-06 13:20           ` Vuille, Martin (Martin)

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