Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 May 2011 23:36:57 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [BUG] perf: bogus correlation of kernel symbols |
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* Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> wrote:
> > The bug is that perf doesn't say "I can't match kernel symbols", but > > instead does some crazy matching and gives total crap module information (I > > think it just picks the one that shows up last in /proc/kallsyms). > > But I agree perf must not silently return bogus information. It should print > a big warning message and/or fallback to printing the raw addresses. [...]
Yes, agreed, this is a bug in perf. I found out about this about two weeks ago and reported it to Arnaldo, but he is away right now - he might be able to fix it next week the earliest.
> [...] So much for having perf in the kernel source tree to keep things in > sync...
What do you mean?
Thanks,
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