perf machine: Do not bail out if not managing to read ref reloc symbol
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tue, 17 May 2016 14:52:26 +0000 (11:52 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 20 May 2016 14:43:54 +0000 (11:43 -0300)
commit45e90056904b12d8dd74e0d2ea6dfd5e4394104d
treeeff08ab0ba5d9ffeddbe656e6072ef02d6e0334a
parenta29d5c9b8167dbc21a7ca8c0302e3799f9063b4e
perf machine: Do not bail out if not managing to read ref reloc symbol

This means the user can't access /proc/kallsyms, for instance, because
/proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict is set to 1.

Instead leave the ref_reloc_sym as NULL and code using it will cope.

This allows 'perf trace' to work on such systems for !root, the only
issue would be when trying to resolve kernel symbols, which happens,
for instance, in some libtracevent plugins.  A warning for that case
will be provided in the next patch in this series.

Noticed in Ubuntu 16.04, that comes with kptr_restrict=1.

Reported-by: Milian Wolff <milian.wolff@kdab.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-knpu3z4iyp2dxpdfm798fac4@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/util/machine.c