Re: [PATCH] perf: introduce new two options for objdump.

[David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>]

On 5/19/15 8:08 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 02:03:46PM +0100, Martin Liška escreveu:
>> Newly introduced options usedfull for off-box usage:
>
>     New useful options for off-box usage:
>
>>    --objdump-prefix: specify prefix to add to the absolute paths
>>    where objdump looks for source files.
>>    --objdump-prefix-strip: indicate how many initial directory names
>>    to strip off the hardwired absolute paths, passed to objdump.
>>    It has no effect without --objdump-prefix.
>
> Does this, for instance, allows one looking at source code + assembly
> with debuginfo packages? Is that a usecase you tested this against?
>
> Anyway, sorry for the delay in processing this, fell thru the cracks ;-\
>
> Can you please respin this on top of my current perf/core, at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux.git
>
> Thanks a lot!

Perhaps it should be generalized a bit? Right now we have symfs for the 
location of the tree for binaries. What about a srcfs for a source tree?