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    perf tools: Check recorded kernel version when finding vmlinux · 0a7e6d1b
    Namhyung Kim authored
    
    
    Currently vmlinux_path__init() only tries to find vmlinux file from
    current directory, /boot and some canonical directories with version
    number of the running kernel.  This can be a problem when reporting old
    data recorded on a kernel version not running currently.
    
    We can use --symfs option for this but it's annoying for user to do it
    always.  As we already have the info in the perf.data file, it can be
    changed to use it for the search automatically.
    
    Before:
    
      $ perf report
      ...
      # Samples: 4K of event 'cpu-clock'
      # Event count (approx.): 1067250000
      #
      # Overhead  Command     Shared Object      Symbol
      # ........  ..........  .................  ..............................
          71.87%     swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] recover_probed_instruction
    
    After:
    
      # Overhead  Command     Shared Object      Symbol
      # ........  ..........  .................  ....................
          71.87%     swapper  [kernel.kallsyms]  [k] native_safe_halt
    
    This requires to change signature of symbol__init() to receive struct
    perf_session_env *.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarMinchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1407825645-24586-14-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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