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| author | Pierre-Loup A. Griffais <pgriffais@nvidia.com> | 2012-06-22 11:38:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2012-06-27 13:14:18 -0300 |
| commit | 209bd9e3e14712d74c8bebb028afda905d689f1c (patch) | |
| tree | b106bcd49dc71e958f0c78f67cdaae6eba940c62 /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | da3789628f88684d3f0fb4e6a6bc086c395ac3cb (diff) | |
perf symbols: Follow .gnu_debuglink section to find separate symbols
The .gnu_debuglink section is specified to contain the filename of the
debug info file, as well as a CRC that can be used to validate it.
This doesn't currently use the checksum and relies on the usual build-id
matching for validation.
This provides more context:
http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Separate-Debug-Files.html
Signed-off-by: Pierre-Loup A. Griffais <pgriffais@nvidia.com>
Reported-by: Mike Sartain <mikesart@valvesoftware.com>
Tested-by: Mike Sartain <mikesart@valvesoftware.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Sartain <mikesart@valvesoftware.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE4BB95.3080309@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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