Re: [PATCH] perf machine: Search for modules in %s/lib/modules/%s

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 4/10/14, 9:52 AM, Richard Yao wrote:
> Modules installed outside of the kernel's build system should go into
> "%s/lib/modules/%s/extra", but at present, perf will only look at them
> when they are in "%s/lib/modules/%s/kernel". Lets encourage good
> citizenship by relaxing this requirement to "%s/lib/modules/%s". This
> way open source modules that are out-of-tree have no incentive to start
> populating a directory reserved for in-kernle modules and I can stop hex
> editing my system's perf binary when profiling OSS out-of-tree modules.
>
> Signed-off-by: Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org>
> ---
>   tools/perf/util/machine.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> index a53cd0b..116842e 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
> @@ -786,7 +786,7 @@ static int machine__set_modules_path(struct machine *machine)
>   	if (!version)
>   		return -1;
>
> -	snprintf(modules_path, sizeof(modules_path), "%s/lib/modules/%s/kernel",
> +	snprintf(modules_path, sizeof(modules_path), "%s/lib/modules/%s",
>   		 machine->root_dir, version);
>   	free(version);
>
>

Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>