linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V6 0/8] perf tools: kcore improvements

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Date:	Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:48:43 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc:	Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 0/8] perf tools: kcore improvements

On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:30:56PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:01:10PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote:
> >> 	- workaround objdump difficulties with kcore
> >
> > I've no idea, but given that've 'inlined' addr2line, should we also
> > consider polling in objdump -- or at least that subset of functionality
> > that we actually use?
> 
> FWIW addr2line is just a straight forward BFD call.
> 
> objdump is significantly more complex, a lot of it is outside BFD
> (including the full disassembler and all the logic for syncing
> the source files)

Oh, that's unfortunate, I was hoping most of that would indeed be in
some library form or other.
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