linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf probe: Fix module probe issue if no dwarf support

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Date:	Tue, 26 Apr 2016 20:42:46 +0530
From:	Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, peterz@...radead.org,
	mingo@...hat.com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com,
	mhiramat@...nel.org, wangnan0@...wei.com, namhyung@...nel.org,
	srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] perf probe: Fix module probe issue if no dwarf
 support



On Tuesday 26 April 2016 08:04 PM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 07:55:40PM +0530, Ravi Bangoria escreveu:
>> Perf is not able to register probe in kernel module when dwarf supprt
>> is not there(and so it goes for symtab). Perf passes full path of
>> module where only module name is required which is causing the problem.
>> This patch fixes this issue.
> Is this v3? What has changed from v2?
>
> - Arnaldo

Yes Arnaldo. But I changed it from [RFC] to [PATCH], so didn't include
version. Here is [RFC v2] link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/4/26/114

Changes w.r.t. [RFC v2]:
   - Swapped patch in series and move definition of find_module_name in 
other patch.

Regards,
Ravi