From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michaele@au1.ibm.com>,
ulrich.weigand@de.ibm.com, Anton Blanchard <anton@au1.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] powerpc/perf: Adjust callchain based on DWARF debug info
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 09:26:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140923162623.GA1698@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140922213345.GB666@drone.musicnaut.iki.fi>
Aaro Koskinen [aaro.koskinen@iki.fi] wrote:
| Hi,
|
| On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 08:49:03AM -0700, Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
| > powerpc/perf: Adjust callchain based on DWARF debug info
| >
| > When saving the callchain on Power, the kernel conservatively saves excess
| > entries in the callchain. A few of these entries are needed in some cases
| > but not others. We should use the DWARF debug information to determine
| > when the entries are needed.
|
| This patch breaks perf compilation if DWARF support is not present.
| DWARF support is auto-detected early in the build, so IMHO either user
| should be informed to install the needed stuff, or the build should
| succeed with limited functionality.
|
| arch/powerpc/util/skip-callchain-idx.c:13:19: fatal error: dwarf.h: No such file or directory #include <dwarf.h>
| ^
| compilation terminated.
Yes. Sorry. Anton fixed this recently:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/9/19/29
Sukadev
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-23 16:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-25 0:00 [PATCH v5 1/1] powerpc/perf: Adjust callchain based on DWARF debug info Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-06-25 7:42 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-06-25 15:49 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu
2014-09-22 21:33 ` Aaro Koskinen
2014-09-23 6:59 ` Jiri Olsa
2014-09-23 16:26 ` Sukadev Bhattiprolu [this message]
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