these changes reintroduce the 'perf top exits' bug: $ perf top -v map_groups__set_modules_path_dir: cannot open /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc6-tip-00586-g398dde3-dirty/kernel dir It's the non-existence of modules that causes a disorderly exit. I sent you my config with the earlier bugreport - i think if you tried that config you'd see a similar failure. I've fixed it via the commit below for now. Ingo ------------> >From 2161db969313cb94ffd9377a525fb75c3fee9eeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Molnar Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:22:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] perf tools: Fix session init on non-modular kernels MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit perf top and perf record refuses to initialize on non-modular kernels: refuse to initialize: $ perf top -v map_groups__set_modules_path_dir: cannot open /lib/modules/2.6.33-rc6-tip-00586-g398dde3-dirty/ Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras LKML-Reference: <1265223128-11786-1-git-send-email-acme@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c index a60ba2b..6882e9f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c @@ -1937,7 +1937,7 @@ int map_groups__create_kernel_maps(struct map_groups *self, return -1; if (symbol_conf.use_modules && map_groups__create_modules(self) < 0) - return -1; + return 0; /* * Now that we have all the maps created, just set the ->end of them: */