From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/8] perf symbol: Save vmlinux or kallsyms path loaded
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 12:13:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <528FACF0.5090604@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131122184458.GE11305@ghostprotocols.net>
On 11/22/13, 11:44 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 01:32:46PM -0700, David Ahern escreveu:
>> Save vmlinux or kallsyms path loaded using embedded default lookup (ie.,
>> not a user specified path). Upcoming perf sched timehist command requires
>> kernel symbols for properly computing idle times and prints a warning
>> if the kernel symbols are not loaded.
>
> What would happen if strdup failed here?
perf continues on happily. On the timehist command will question
computation of idle times which require kernel symbols.
>
> Why don't we undo anything done so far in this function and return an
> error?
>
In the notion of best effort of continuing. It's not a show stopper that
strdup failed; it's just not the filename it used for symbols.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-22 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-18 20:32 [PATCH 0/8] perf: sched timehist command David Ahern
2013-11-18 20:32 ` [PATCH 1/8] perf tool: Skip ignored symbols while printing callchain David Ahern
2013-11-30 12:52 ` [tip:perf/core] perf evsel: " tip-bot for David Ahern
2013-11-18 20:32 ` [PATCH 2/8] perf symbols: Move idle syms check from top to generic function David Ahern
2013-11-28 8:36 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-30 15:58 ` David Ahern
2013-11-30 12:52 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for David Ahern
2013-11-18 20:32 ` [PATCH 3/8] perf symbol: Save vmlinux or kallsyms path loaded David Ahern
2013-11-22 18:44 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-11-22 19:13 ` David Ahern [this message]
2013-11-22 19:40 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2013-11-22 20:09 ` David Ahern
2013-11-18 20:32 ` [PATCH 4/8] perf thread: Move comm_list check into function David Ahern
2013-11-30 12:52 ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for David Ahern
2013-11-18 20:32 ` [PATCH 5/8] perf tool: export setup_list David Ahern
2013-11-28 8:45 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-30 12:52 ` [tip:perf/core] perf tools: Export setup_list tip-bot for David Ahern
2013-11-18 20:32 ` [PATCH 6/8] perf sched: Introduce timehist command David Ahern
2013-11-28 9:50 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-28 16:01 ` David Ahern
2013-11-28 15:38 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-28 16:01 ` David Ahern
2013-11-29 0:48 ` Namhyung Kim
2013-11-29 1:58 ` David Ahern
2013-12-04 4:15 ` David Ahern
2013-11-18 20:32 ` [PATCH 7/8] perf sched timehist: Add support for context-switch event David Ahern
2013-11-18 20:32 ` [PATCH 8/8] perf sched : Add documentation for timehist options David Ahern
2013-11-28 15:42 ` Namhyung Kim
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