From 059a59d8790a77be05763d2f03fc202e539381af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 08:31:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 323688 b: refs/heads/master c: 0fe7d7e9761ec7e23350b5543ddac470bb3cde1e h: refs/heads/master v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/tools/perf/Documentation/jit-interface.txt | 15 +++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 trunk/tools/perf/Documentation/jit-interface.txt diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index 0643bcfc4694..476889d3a889 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: 3aafe5ae08f2aed378e06d78b207883879d25cbe +refs/heads/master: 0fe7d7e9761ec7e23350b5543ddac470bb3cde1e diff --git a/trunk/tools/perf/Documentation/jit-interface.txt b/trunk/tools/perf/Documentation/jit-interface.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a8656f564915 --- /dev/null +++ b/trunk/tools/perf/Documentation/jit-interface.txt @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +perf supports a simple JIT interface to resolve symbols for dynamic code generated +by a JIT. + +The JIT has to write a /tmp/perf-%d.map (%d = pid of process) file + +This is a text file. + +Each line has the following format, fields separated with spaces: + +START SIZE symbolname + +START and SIZE are hex numbers without 0x. +symbolname is the rest of the line, so it could contain special characters. + +The ownership of the file has to match the process.