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    perf symbols: Fix ELF header errors during "perf kmem record" · e57cfcda
    Pekka Enberg authored
    The write_event() function in builtin-record.c writes out all
    mmap()'d DSOs including non-ELF files like GNOME resource files
    and such.
    
    Therefore, check for ELF_K_ELF in filename__read_build_id()
    before attempting to read the ELF header with gelf_getehdr().
    
    Fixes the following error messages when running "perf kmem
    record":
    
      penberg@penberg-laptop:~/src/linux/tools/perf$ perf kmem record
      ^C[ perf record: Woken up 2 times to write data ]
      [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.753 MB perf.data (~32885 samples) ]
      filename__read_build_id: cannot get elf header.
      filename__read_build_id: cannot get elf header.
      filename__read_build_id: cannot get elf header.
      filename__read_build_id: cannot get elf header.
      filename__read_build_id: cannot get elf header.
      filename__read_build_id: cannot get elf header.
      filename__read_build_id: cannot get elf header.
      filename__read_build_id: cannot get elf header.
      filename__read_build_id: cannot get elf header.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
    Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    LKML-Reference: <1258885784-11709-1-git-send-email-penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    e57cfcda
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