From 664fee3dc37939bb8010906913fa9dbc52abb587 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:41:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] perf probe: Do not use dwfl_module_addrsym if dwarf_diename finds symbol name Do not use dwfl_module_addrsym if dwarf_diename can find the symbol name, since dwfl_module_addrsym can be failed on shared libraries. Without this patch ---- $ perf probe -x ../lib/traceevent/libtraceevent.so -V create_arg_op Failed to find symbol at 0x11df1 Failed to find the address of create_arg_op Error: Failed to show vars. ---- With this patch ---- $ perf probe -x ../lib/traceevent/libtraceevent.so -V create_arg_op Available variables at create_arg_op @ enum filter_op_type btype struct filter_arg* arg ---- This bug was reported on linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org. Reported-by: david lerner Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: david lerner Cc: linux-perf-user@vger.kernel.org Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Link: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.perf.user/1691 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140917084101.3722.25299.stgit@kbuild-f20.novalocal Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- Reading git-format-patch failed