Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:19:17 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 27/31] perf record: Support custom vmlinux path |
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Em Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 04:22:01AM +0000, Wang Nan escreveu: > From: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> > > Make perf-record command support --vmlinux option if BPF_PROLOGUE is on.
Ok, this should be supported, i.e. letting the user specify a vmlinux path to use.
But it shouldn't be _required_, i.e. we have things like vmlinux_path to try to find it in well known places.
Right now it will search for it in the process of trying to load its symtab, but I think we should have a function that tries to find a vmlinux that matches the build-id of the running kernel, for things that want to have access directly to the ELF file with debuginfo without having to load the symtab in a struct dso, etc.
I'll look at the next patches to check how you make use of this info...
- Arnaldo
> 'perf record' needs vmlinux as the source of DWARF info to generate > prologue for BPF programs, so path of vmlinux should be specified. > > Short name 'k' has been taken by 'clockid'. This patch skips the short > option name and use '--vmlinux' for vmlinux path. > > Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> > Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> > Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> > Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com> > Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> > Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> > Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> > Cc: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com> > Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> > Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> > Cc: pi3orama@163.com > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/1436445342-1402-38-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com > --- > tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 4 ++++ > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c > index 212718c..8eb39d5 100644 > --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c > +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c > @@ -1100,6 +1100,10 @@ struct option __record_options[] = { > "clang binary to use for compiling BPF scriptlets"), > OPT_STRING(0, "clang-opt", &llvm_param.clang_opt, "clang options", > "options passed to clang when compiling BPF scriptlets"), > +#ifdef HAVE_BPF_PROLOGUE > + OPT_STRING(0, "vmlinux", &symbol_conf.vmlinux_name, > + "file", "vmlinux pathname"), > +#endif > #endif > OPT_END() > }; > -- > 2.1.0
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