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From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	systemtap@sourceware.org, Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Subject: Re: perf probe line numbers + CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT=y
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 12:05:16 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180418150516.GB10084@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180418230301.fd26676ece5b2dc16d98b266@kernel.org>

Em Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:03:01PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> And I found below description in systemtap document(man/error::dwarf.7stap).
> ===
> debuginfo configuration
> Some tools may generate debuginfo that is unsupported by systemtap, such
> as the linux kernel CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT (\f2.dwo\f1 files) option.
> Stick with plain ELF/DWARF (optinally split, Fedora-style), if possible.
> ===
 
> So, it seems that elfutils may not support this split debuginfo yet.

Ok, what about detecting that this is the case: .dwo is being used, as
detected by the presence of those .debug_*.dwo ELF sections and then
warning the user that this mode of operation is not supported yet?

- Arnaldo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-18 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-17 17:47 perf probe line numbers + CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_SPLIT=y Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2018-04-18  3:23 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-04-18 14:03   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-04-18 14:19     ` Mark Wielaard
2018-04-18 15:05     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo [this message]

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