Try first reading the build id, validating that it is an ELF file, etc.
Cheap as libelf will bail out as soon as the magic number check fails.
Useful when investigating debuginfo packaging problems like this one:
[root@emilia ~]# perf buildid-list -i /usr/lib/debug/lib/modules/`uname -r`/vmlinux
77bb4ea591a602d455ace759a377c9adfff1aba3
[root@emilia ~]# perf buildid-list -k
07b0c016a2b30004e86132d0239945b1e88f5d75
[root@emilia ~]#
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-4elot9oxwa0rr0d90dshca3a@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Porcelain can ignore it, humans can make more sense of it.
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1258415125-15019-2-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
With this we can list the buildids in a perf.data file so that
we can pipe them to other, distro specific tools that from the
buildids can figure out separate packages (foo-debuginfo) where
we can find the matching symtabs so that perf report can do its
job.
E.g:
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf buildid-list | head -5
8e08b117e5458ad3f85da16d42d0fc5cd21c5869
520c2387a587cc5acfcf881e27dba1caaeab4b1f
ec8dd400904ddfcac8b1c343263a790f977159dc
7caedbca5a6d8ab39a7fe44bd28c07d3e14a3f3f
379bb828fd08859dbea73279f04abefabc95a6a3
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf buildid-list -v | head -5
8e08b117e5458ad3f85da16d42d0fc5cd21c5869 /sbin/init
520c2387a587cc5acfcf881e27dba1caaeab4b1f /lib64/ld-2.10.1.so
ec8dd400904ddfcac8b1c343263a790f977159dc /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so
7caedbca5a6d8ab39a7fe44bd28c07d3e14a3f3f /sbin/udevd
379bb828fd08859dbea73279f04abefabc95a6a3 /lib64/libdl-2.10.1.so
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
LKML-Reference: <1258396365-29217-5-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo