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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-01-05 15:31:48 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2017-01-11 16:48:00 -0300
commit7d132caaf9392853ad637c8e6e53333cbeb99aa5 (patch)
tree82ca4272bb5c7b54e86661a35069d136b56aaf06 /tools/perf/util
parentd5f805c09620dadc1a7806fbd46189d183f6c395 (diff)
perf machine: Add a kallsyms loading constructor
To reduce the boilerplate for searching for functions in the running kernel and modules. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-93iqzayafpaxaguoiwjqezgz@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/machine.c19
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/machine.h1
2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index 9b33bef54581..747a034d1ff3 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -87,6 +87,25 @@ out_delete:
return NULL;
}
+struct machine *machine__new_kallsyms(void)
+{
+ struct machine *machine = machine__new_host();
+ /*
+ * FIXME:
+ * 1) MAP__FUNCTION will go away when we stop loading separate maps for
+ * functions and data objects.
+ * 2) We should switch to machine__load_kallsyms(), i.e. not explicitely
+ * ask for not using the kcore parsing code, once this one is fixed
+ * to create a map per module.
+ */
+ if (machine && __machine__load_kallsyms(machine, "/proc/kallsyms", MAP__FUNCTION, true) <= 0) {
+ machine__delete(machine);
+ machine = NULL;
+ }
+
+ return machine;
+}
+
static void dsos__purge(struct dsos *dsos)
{
struct dso *pos, *n;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.h b/tools/perf/util/machine.h
index 354de6e56109..a28305029711 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.h
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ char *machine__mmap_name(struct machine *machine, char *bf, size_t size);
void machines__set_comm_exec(struct machines *machines, bool comm_exec);
struct machine *machine__new_host(void);
+struct machine *machine__new_kallsyms(void);
int machine__init(struct machine *machine, const char *root_dir, pid_t pid);
void machine__exit(struct machine *machine);
void machine__delete_threads(struct machine *machine);