linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] perf symbol: Do not apply symfs for an absolute vmlinux path

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Message-ID: <51E69CB4.9060905@gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 17 Jul 2013 07:31:32 -0600
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
CC:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf symbol: Do not apply symfs for an absolute vmlinux
 path

On 7/17/13 2:08 AM, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>
>
> If an user gives both of --symfs and --vmlinux option, the vmlinux
> will be searched under the symfs directory.  This is somewhat
> confusing since vmlinux often lives in kernel build directory or
> somewhere other than user space binaries.
>
> So it'd be better not adding symfs prefix for a vmlinux if it has an
> absolute pathname.
>
> Reported-by: Kwanghyun Yoo <ykh815.yoo@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>

Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
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