linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/4] perf_counter tools: support annotation of live kernel modules

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Message-Id: <1246536617.4752.15.camel@laptop>
Date:	Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:10:17 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] perf_counter tools: support annotation of live
 kernel modules

On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 09:17 +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:

>  I've been pondering a perf archive tool
> that would package everything that's needed to do analysis on a
> different box.  One big problem though, is that while you can easily
> package vmlinux and modules, what about all the userland binaries?  A
> large perf.data and/or debug info binaries can easily make transport
> impractical enough.

I would simply extend the current file header with another section in
which we do a structured storage of the data structures we currently
build in perf-report. That is, the dso and symbol bits.

If we then run perf-report on a file containing such a section we read
that data instead of trying to locate them the regular way.



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