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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 0/8] perf tools: kcore improvements
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:48:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131010124843.GM3081@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874n8qyt3z.fsf@tassilo.jf.intel.com>

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:30:56PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:01:10PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> >> 	- workaround objdump difficulties with kcore
> >
> > I've no idea, but given that've 'inlined' addr2line, should we also
> > consider polling in objdump -- or at least that subset of functionality
> > that we actually use?
> 
> FWIW addr2line is just a straight forward BFD call.
> 
> objdump is significantly more complex, a lot of it is outside BFD
> (including the full disassembler and all the logic for syncing
> the source files)

Oh, that's unfortunate, I was hoping most of that would indeed be in
some library form or other.

      reply	other threads:[~2013-10-10 12:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-09 12:01 [PATCH V6 0/8] perf tools: kcore improvements Adrian Hunter
2013-10-09 12:01 ` [PATCH V6 1/8] perf tools: validate kcore module addresses Adrian Hunter
2013-10-15  5:33   ` [tip:perf/core] perf symbols: Validate " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-10-09 12:01 ` [PATCH V6 2/8] perf tools: workaround objdump difficulties with kcore Adrian Hunter
2013-10-15  5:33   ` [tip:perf/core] perf symbols: Workaround " tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2013-10-09 12:01 ` [PATCH V6 3/8] perf tools: add map__find_other_map_symbol() Adrian Hunter
2013-10-11 13:41   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-10-09 12:01 ` [PATCH V6 4/8] perf tools: fix annotate_browser__callq() Adrian Hunter
2013-10-09 12:01 ` [PATCH V6 5/8] perf tools: find kcore symbols on other maps Adrian Hunter
2013-10-09 12:01 ` [PATCH V6 6/8] perf tools: add copyfile_mode() Adrian Hunter
2013-10-09 12:01 ` [PATCH V6 7/8] perf buildid-cache: add ability to add kcore to the cache Adrian Hunter
2013-10-09 12:01 ` [PATCH V6 8/8] perf tools: add ability to find kcore in build-id cache Adrian Hunter
2013-10-09 12:07 ` [PATCH V6 0/8] perf tools: kcore improvements Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-09 22:30   ` Andi Kleen
2013-10-10 12:48     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]

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