From 7d132caaf9392853ad637c8e6e53333cbeb99aa5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 15:31:48 -0300 Subject: perf machine: Add a kallsyms loading constructor To reduce the boilerplate for searching for functions in the running kernel and modules. Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: David Ahern Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Namhyung Kim Cc: Wang Nan Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-93iqzayafpaxaguoiwjqezgz@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/machine.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/util/machine.c') 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; -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522