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From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@elte.hu>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"Mike Galbraith" <efault@gmx.de>,
	"Peter Zijlstra" <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	"Paul Mackerras" <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] perf session: Create kernel maps in the constructor
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:28:29 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B61BB2D.70802@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100127232936.GI12567@ghostprotocols.net>

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 06:17:58PM -0500, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
>> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>>> From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> Removing one extra step needed in the tools that need this, fixing a bug
>>> in 'perf probe' where this was not being done.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> BTW, when O_WRONLY should be used? I guess I might misunderstand something
>> in builtin-probe.c, and it should use O_RDONLY ...
> 
> O_RDONLY only when you have a perf.data file, O_WRONLY was thought for
> 'perf record', then for tools that want only to do symbol lookup it was
> reused...

Ah, so that is the mode for perf.data.

> I think we should have a proper enum and more clearly specify these
> semantics, as well as adding a MMAP mode so that we can lift the code
> now in perf top somehow.

Yeah, and if you can separate an interface only for handling symbols
from debug/elf binaries, it will be helpful for me too.

> But for now using O_WRONLY provides what 'perf probe' needs, I guess :-)

I think so ;-)

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com


  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-28 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-27 23:05 [PATCH 1/9] perf top: Exit if specified --vmlinux can't be used Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-01-27 23:05 ` [PATCH 2/9] perf symbols: Factor out dso__load_vmlinux_path() Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-01-27 23:05 ` [PATCH 3/9] perf symbols: Split helpers used when creating kernel dso object Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-01-27 23:05 ` [PATCH 4/9] perf session: Create kernel maps in the constructor Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-01-27 23:17   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-01-27 23:29     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-01-28 16:28       ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2010-01-28 18:29         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-01-28 20:59           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-01-29  0:42             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-01-29  7:01               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-01-27 23:05 ` [PATCH 5/9] perf symbols: Remove perf_session usage in symbols layer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-01-27 23:05 ` [PATCH 6/9] perf: Ignore perf-archive temp file Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-01-29  9:33   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for John Kacur
2010-01-29  9:39   ` tip-bot for John Kacur
2010-01-27 23:05 ` [PATCH 7/9] tools/perf/perf.c: Clean up trivial style issues Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-01-29  9:32   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Thiago Farina
2010-01-29  9:39   ` tip-bot for Thiago Farina
2010-01-27 23:05 ` [PATCH 8/9] perf symbols: Fixup vsyscall maps Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-01-27 23:05 ` [PATCH 9/9] perf symbols: Ditch vdso global variable Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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