perf annotate: Automatically pick up vmlinux in the local directory
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sat, 6 Jun 2009 19:17:03 +0000 (21:17 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sat, 6 Jun 2009 19:17:03 +0000 (21:17 +0200)
commit39273ee9756917129de3190d469b0b120f87e763
tree124a5768203b5c0767143988b7d731b47fd62cc7
parent8953645fec933f992223286ad407dc371ac2caa5
perf annotate: Automatically pick up vmlinux in the local directory

Right now kernel debug info does not get resolved by default, because
we dont know where to look for the vmlinux.

The -k option can be used for that - but if no option is given, pick
up vmlinux files in the current directory - in case a kernel hacker
runs profiling from the source directory that the kernel was built in.

The real solution would be to embedd the location (and perhaps the
date/timestamp) of the vmlinux file in /proc/kallsyms, so that
tools can pick it up automatically.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c