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  2. Aug 11, 2011
    • Jiri Olsa's avatar
      perf report: Use properly build_id kernel binaries · f57b05ed
      Jiri Olsa authored
      If we bring the recorded perf data together with kernel binary from another
      machine using:
      
      	on server A:
      	perf archive
      
      	on server B:
      	tar xjvf perf.data.tar.bz2 -C ~/.debug
      
      the build_id kernel dso is not properly recognized during the "perf report"
      command on server B.
      
      The reason is, that build_id dsos are added during the session initialization,
      while the kernel maps are created during the sample event processing.
      
      The machine__create_kernel_maps functions ends up creating new dso object for
      kernel, but it does not check if we already have one added by build_id
      processing.
      
      Also the build_id reading ABI quirk added in commit:
      
       - commit b2511481
         perf build-id: Add quirk to deal with perf.data file format breakage
      
      populates the "struct build_id_event::pid" with 0, which
      is later interpreted as DEFAULT_GUEST_KERNEL_ID.
      
      This is not always correct, so it's better to guess the pid
      value based on the "struct build_id_event::header::misc" value.
      
      - Tested with data generated on x86 kernel version v2.6.34
        and reported back on x86_64 current kernel.
      - Not tested for guest kernel case.
      
      Note the problem stays for PERF_RECORD_MMAP events recorded by perf that
      does not use proper pid (HOST_KERNEL_ID/DEFAULT_GUEST_KERNEL_ID). They are
      misinterpreted within the current perf code. Probably there's not much we
      can do about that.
      
      Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
      Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
      Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      Cc: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com>
      Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110601194346.GB1934@jolsa.brq.redhat.com
      
      
      Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
      f57b05ed
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