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Message-ID: <20091123073317.GA16628@elte.hu>
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:33:17 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
Li Zefan <lizf@...fujitsu.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@...ux360.ro>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2] perf: Add 'perf kmem' tool
* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> > I havent tried this - is this really possible to do on an x86 box,
> > with a typical distro? Can i install say Fedora PowerPC debuginfo
> > packages on an x86 box, while also having the x86 debuginfo packages
> > there?
>
> The best option would be to allow to specify a chroot parameter, where
> we can specify the embedded root filesystem on out machine.
>
> I'm not even sure embedded distros even have this separate debug
> package crazyness, you simply build the distro with or without
> debuginfo.
yes - we could use -R/--root (which opreport has as well), as a
mandatory path prefix to all DSO/debuginfo searches.
Ingo
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