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    perf record: Do not save pathname in ./debug/.build-id directory for vmlinux · 00dc8657
    Namhyung Kim authored
    When perf record finishes a session, it pre-processes samples in order
    to write build-id info from DSOs that had samples.
    
    During this process it'll call map__load() for the kernel map, and it
    ends up calling dso__load_vmlinux_path() which replaces dso->long_name.
    
    But this function checks kernel's build-id before searching vmlinux path
    so it'll end up with a cryptic name, the pathname for the entry in the
    ~/.debug cache, which can be confusing to users.
    
    This patch adds a flag to skip the build-id check during record, so
    that it'll have the original vmlinux path for the kernel dso->long_name,
    not the entry in the ~/.debug cache.
    
    Before:
      # perf record -va sleep 3
      mmap size 528384B
      [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
      [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.196 MB perf.data (~8545 samples) ]
      Looking at the vmlinux_path (7 entries long)
      Using /home/namhyung/.debug/.build-id/f0/6e17aa50adf4d00b88925e03775de107611551 for symbols
    
    After:
      # perf record -va sleep 3
      mmap size 528384B
      [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
      [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.193 MB perf.data (~8432 samples) ]
      Looking at the vmlinux_path (7 entries long)
      Using /lib/modules/3.16.4-1-ARCH/build/vmlinux for symbols
    Signed-off-by: default avatarNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
    Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
    Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
    Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
    Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1415063674-17206-7-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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