linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] perf tools: Remove the logical that skip buildid cache if symfs is given

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Message-ID: <6108abe8-4508-c440-969f-5f9d8ee83131@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 May 2016 08:27:29 -0600
From:	David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:	Hekuang <hekuang@...wei.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <arnaldo.melo@...il.com>
Cc:	peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, jolsa@...hat.com,
	wangnan0@...wei.com, jpoimboe@...hat.com, ak@...ux.intel.com,
	eranian@...gle.com, namhyung@...nel.org, adrian.hunter@...el.com,
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	tumanova@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, kan.liang@...el.com,
	penberg@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/7] perf tools: Remove the logical that skip buildid
 cache if symfs is given

On 5/13/16 1:19 AM, Hekuang wrote:
>> What about putting the build id cache under the symfs? so instead of
>> dropping the symfs check and it to the path for the build id cache.
>>
>>
> I think your intention is to reference symbol files in one place
> instead of two. So there're two possible approaches, one is all
> in buildid-cache, but in practice, I found lots of binaries in
> symfs even not contains valid buildid, so this way is not work.
>
> The other one is all in symfs. It seems ok, but one problem I
> should point out, with my test environment as an example, the
> symfsdir is $(TARGET_ROOTFS),and by default buildid_dir is
> $(TARGET_ROOTFS)/$(HOME)/.debug/, host perf does not know
> $(HOME) folder in target and we should copy the debug folder
>  to $(TARGET_ROOTFS), which is readonly in the target. For me, it's
> easier to use 'buildid-cache -a vdso-xxxx' to add that into host
> buildid-cache than copy debug folder from $(HOME) to readonly
> $(TARGET_ROOTFS).
>
> Without the stale concern, I prefer the two places(buildid-dir in
> host and target symfs) way.

The intention of symfs is every single file opened by perf is relative 
to that directory. As I recall when I added that option in early 2011 I 
made sure that statement is true. I think it is best to maintain that 
design.