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authorFranck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>2010-12-10 14:06:03 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-12-16 09:41:45 -0200
commitfd930ff91e7fda18f7790984a98489a85edb7c71 (patch)
tree5210fee0494c7be8233c0e0d5479a0cc5773bc02 /tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
parentMerge branch 'tip/perf/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into perf/urgent (diff)
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perf probe: Fix use of kernel image path given by 'k' option
Users were not being able to have the explicitely specified vmlinux pathname used, instead a search on the vmlinux path was always being made. Reported-by: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com> Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <vagabon.xyz@gmail.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> LPU-Reference: <m3hbelydz8.fsf_-_@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/probe-event.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/probe-event.c15
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 3b6a5297bf16..b71acd6423cb 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ static struct symbol *__find_kernel_function_by_name(const char *name,
const char *kernel_get_module_path(const char *module)
{
struct dso *dso;
+ struct map *map;
+ const char *vmlinux_name;
if (module) {
list_for_each_entry(dso, &machine.kernel_dsos, node) {
@@ -123,10 +125,17 @@ const char *kernel_get_module_path(const char *module)
}
pr_debug("Failed to find module %s.\n", module);
return NULL;
+ }
+
+ map = machine.vmlinux_maps[MAP__FUNCTION];
+ dso = map->dso;
+
+ vmlinux_name = symbol_conf.vmlinux_name;
+ if (vmlinux_name) {
+ if (dso__load_vmlinux(dso, map, vmlinux_name, NULL) <= 0)
+ return NULL;
} else {
- dso = machine.vmlinux_maps[MAP__FUNCTION]->dso;
- if (dso__load_vmlinux_path(dso,
- machine.vmlinux_maps[MAP__FUNCTION], NULL) < 0) {
+ if (dso__load_vmlinux_path(dso, map, NULL) < 0) {
pr_debug("Failed to load kernel map.\n");
return NULL;
}