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

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Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2014 13:56:29 +0200
From:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Cc:	Richard Yao <ryao@...too.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf machine: Search for modules in %s/lib/modules/%s

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 02:44:52PM +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:52:59 -0400, 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.
> 
> But it'll make the perf traverses all the source and build directories
> too, right?  I don't think it's a right thing to do.
> 
> Maybe we can also change stat() in map_groups__set_modules_path_dir() to
> lstat() so that it cannot go to unwanted directories in that case.  Or
> else, just checking "kernel" and "extra" directories will work.

yay, forgot about source directory.. :-\  looks like lstat should
help, but hardcoding kernel and extra sounds better to me.

Richard, please send updated patch

thanks,
jirka
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