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perf probe: Fix to use symtab only if no debuginfo
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Fix perf probe to use symtab only if there is no debuginfo, because debuginfo
has more information than symtab.

If we can't find a function in debuginfo, we never find it in symtab.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20100421195624.24664.46214.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Masami Hiramatsu authored and Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo committed Apr 26, 2010
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17 changes: 9 additions & 8 deletions tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
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Expand Up @@ -180,15 +180,16 @@ static int try_to_find_kprobe_trace_events(struct perf_probe_event *pev,
return -ENOENT;
}
/* Error path : ntevs < 0 */
if (need_dwarf) {
if (ntevs == -EBADF)
pr_warning("No dwarf info found in the vmlinux - "
"please rebuild with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y.\n");
return ntevs;
pr_debug("An error occurred in debuginfo analysis (%d).\n", ntevs);
if (ntevs == -EBADF) {
pr_warning("Warning: No dwarf info found in the vmlinux - "
"please rebuild kernel with CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO=y.\n");
if (!need_dwarf) {
pr_debug("Trying to use symbols.\nn");
return 0;
}
}
pr_debug("An error occurred in debuginfo analysis."
" Try to use symbols.\n");
return 0;
return ntevs;
}

#define LINEBUF_SIZE 256
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