linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/8] perf symbol: Save vmlinux or kallsyms path loaded

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Message-ID: <528FBA0D.1040904@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 22 Nov 2013 13:09:49 -0700
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] perf symbol: Save vmlinux or kallsyms path loaded

On 11/22/13, 12:40 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 12:13:52PM -0700, David Ahern escreveu:
>> On 11/22/13, 11:44 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>>> Em Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 01:32:46PM -0700, David Ahern escreveu:
>>>> Save vmlinux or kallsyms path loaded using embedded default lookup (ie.,
>>>> not a user specified path). Upcoming perf sched timehist command requires
>>>> kernel symbols for properly computing idle times and prints a warning
>>>> if the kernel symbols are not loaded.
>
>>> What would happen if strdup failed here?
>
>> perf continues on happily. On the timehist command will question
>> computation of idle times which require kernel symbols.
>
>>> Why don't we undo anything done so far in this function and return an
>>> error?
>
>> In the notion of best effort of continuing. It's not a show stopper
>> that strdup failed; it's just not the filename it used for symbols.
>
> So if later on one would need to print that info, it would just show
> "unknown"?

no. you get a warning message that idle values might be wrong.

David

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