tree 7c2b04cf627ef339feab565e5633a57f2ead5a49
parent da21d1b547cbaa2c026cf645753651c25d340923
author Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 1254934136 -0300
committer Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> 1255022831 +0200

perf tools: Improve kernel/modules symbol lookup

This removes the ovelapping of vmlinux addresses with modules,
using the ELF section name when using --vmlinux and creating a
unique DSO name when using /proc/kallsyms ([kernel].N).

This is done by creating multiple 'struct map' instances for
address ranges backed by DSOs that have just the symbols for that
range and a name that is derived from the ELF section name.o

Now it is possible to ask for just the symbols in some particular
kernel section:

$ perf report -m --vmlinux ../build/tip-recvmmsg/vmlinux \
	--dsos [kernel].vsyscall_fn | head -15
    52.73%             Xorg  [.] vread_hpet
    18.61%          firefox  [.] vread_hpet
    14.50%     npviewer.bin  [.] vread_hpet
     6.83%           compiz  [.] vread_hpet
     5.73%         glxgears  [.] vread_hpet
     0.63%             java  [.] vread_hpet
     0.30%   gnome-terminal  [.] vread_hpet
     0.23%             perf  [.] vread_hpet
     0.18%            xchat  [.] vread_hpet
$

Now we don't have to first lookup the list of modules and then, if
it fails, vmlinux symbols, its just a simple lookup for the map
then the symbols, just like for threads.

Reports generated using /proc/kallsyms and --vmlinux should provide
the same results, modulo the DSO name for sections other than
".text".

But they don't right now because things like:

 ffffffff81011c20-ffffffff81012068 system_call
 ffffffff81011c30-ffffffff81011c9b system_call_after_swapgs
 ffffffff81011c9c-ffffffff81011cb6 system_call_fastpath
 ffffffff81011cb7-ffffffff81011cbb ret_from_sys_call

I.e. overlapping symbols, again some ASM special case that we have
to fixup.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <1254934136-8503-1-git-send-email-acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>