perf top: Handle kptr_restrict
authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 27 May 2011 14:53:28 +0000 (11:53 -0300)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 27 May 2011 19:02:25 +0000 (16:02 -0300)
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cyl5zmi1nu35vyu7l5im2pyv@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/builtin-top.c

index 375ed160d9362f4d6755addac29708678d476203..472f62790022f7945b6d219101282aa0dad260bd 100644 (file)
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ static bool                   use_tui, use_stdio;
 
 static int                     default_interval                =      0;
 
+static bool                    kptr_restrict_warned;
 static bool                    inherit                         =  false;
 static int                     realtime_prio                   =      0;
 static bool                    group                           =  false;
@@ -738,6 +739,20 @@ static void perf_event__process_sample(const union perf_event *event,
            al.filtered)
                return;
 
+       if (!kptr_restrict_warned &&
+           symbol_conf.kptr_restrict &&
+           al.cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL) {
+               ui__warning(
+"Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) are restricted.\n\n"
+"Check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict.\n\n"
+"Kernel%s samples will not be resolved.\n",
+                         !RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&al.map->dso->symbols[MAP__FUNCTION]) ?
+                         " modules" : "");
+               if (use_browser <= 0)
+                       sleep(5);
+               kptr_restrict_warned = true;
+       }
+
        if (al.sym == NULL) {
                /*
                 * As we do lazy loading of symtabs we only will know if the