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perf symbols: we can now read separate debug-info files based on a bu…
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…ild ID

Recent GDB (at least on a vanilla Debian box) looks for debug information in

  /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/nn/nnnnnnn

where nn/nnnnnn is the build-id of the stripped ELF binary. This is
documented here:

  https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Separate-Debug-Files.html

This was not working in perf because we didn't read the build id until
AFTER we searched for the separate debug information file. This patch
reads the build ID and THEN does the search.

Signed-off-by: Dima Kogan <dima@secretsauce.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87si6pfwz4.fsf@secretsauce.net
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Dima Kogan authored and Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo committed Oct 28, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -1406,6 +1406,7 @@ int dso__load(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, symbol_filter_t filter)
struct symsrc ss_[2];
struct symsrc *syms_ss = NULL, *runtime_ss = NULL;
bool kmod;
unsigned char build_id[BUILD_ID_SIZE];

pthread_mutex_lock(&dso->lock);

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dso->symtab_type == DSO_BINARY_TYPE__GUEST_KMODULE ||
dso->symtab_type == DSO_BINARY_TYPE__GUEST_KMODULE_COMP;


/*
* Read the build id if possible. This is required for
* DSO_BINARY_TYPE__BUILDID_DEBUGINFO to work
*/
if (filename__read_build_id(dso->name, build_id, BUILD_ID_SIZE) > 0)
dso__set_build_id(dso, build_id);

/*
* Iterate over candidate debug images.
* Keep track of "interesting" ones (those which have a symtab, dynsym,
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