Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:48:43 +0200 | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH V6 0/8] perf tools: kcore improvements |
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On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:30:56PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes: > > > On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 03:01:10PM +0300, Adrian Hunter wrote: > >> - workaround objdump difficulties with kcore > > > > I've no idea, but given that've 'inlined' addr2line, should we also > > consider polling in objdump -- or at least that subset of functionality > > that we actually use? > > FWIW addr2line is just a straight forward BFD call. > > objdump is significantly more complex, a lot of it is outside BFD > (including the full disassembler and all the logic for syncing > the source files)
Oh, that's unfortunate, I was hoping most of that would indeed be in some library form or other.
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