Re: [PATCH] perf symbols: don't use modules or try vmlinux unless needed

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>]

Em Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 10:23:54AM +0000, Jamie Iles escreveu:
> Commit 75be6cf (perf symbols: Make symbol_conf global) does what it says
> on the tin, but also initialises the member fields use_modules and
> try_vmlinux_path to true rather than the 'false' value they would have
> had when symbol_conf was static.
> 
> When there is no vmlinux on the system and modules loaded, perf top will
> not show any kernel symbols and perf report will only list raw IP's
> rather than symbol names. Unloading the modules will allow perf to give
> normal output.
> 
> Restore previous behaviour by initialising these fields to false.

James,

	I just tried using perf top here in such conditions:

[root@ana ~]# strace -e open -o /tmp/perf.open.strace perf top
------------------------------------------------------------------------
   PerfTop:      65 irqs/sec kernel:64.6% [1000Hz cycles], (all, 2 CPUs)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

             samples  pcnt function           DSO
             _______ _____ __________________ _________________

               12.00  7.0% format_decode      [kernel.kallsyms]
               10.00  5.8% __strstr_ia32      /lib/libc-2.11.so
                9.00  5.3% read_hpet          [kernel.kallsyms]
                7.00  4.1% module_get_kallsym [kernel.kallsyms]
                5.00  2.9% vsnprintf          [kernel.kallsyms]
                5.00  2.9% __memchr           /lib/libc-2.11.so
/usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1800.5.#prelink#.aAFN89 was updated,
restart the long running apps that use it!

[root@ana ~]# grep vmlinux /tmp/perf.open.strace 
open("vmlinux", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/boot/vmlinux", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/boot/vmlinux-2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/modules/2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686/build/vmlinux", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/2.6.31.9-174.fc12.i686/vmlinux", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

And it is resolving the kernel symbols.

Maybe some changes I made that aren't yet in Ingo's tree or upstream
fixed it, can you please try after those patches are merged?

- Arnaldo