perf tools: add NO_BACKTRACE for application self-debugging
authorIrina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Sat, 8 Sep 2012 00:43:23 +0000 (03:43 +0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Sat, 8 Sep 2012 01:12:30 +0000 (22:12 -0300)
commitc9f08bee50c71b06685ccff8110e56a7c05662b7
tree5a4fd1448bef4204e0dc0e99f8bf925a18fb6f61
parent9612ef6716efc20fac0f57d59452cda4e6846bda
perf tools: add NO_BACKTRACE for application self-debugging

perf has support for self-debugging by defining dump_stack function.
This function uses backtrace and backtrace_symbols functions defined as
GNU extensions.

In Android, bionic does not offer support for these functions and
compilation will fail with the following error:

target  C: libperf <= tools/perf/util/util.c
tools/perf/util/util.c:4:22: fatal error: execinfo.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Add a compile-time option (NO_BACKTRACE) to enable or disable
self-debugging functionality in perf. This can also help in debugging
since it offers the possibility to turn on/off printing the backtrace.

Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <irina.tirdea@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1347065004-15306-12-git-send-email-irina.tirdea@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Makefile
tools/perf/config/feature-tests.mak
tools/perf/util/util.c