Ingo Molnar wrote:

> i just bisected a 'perf report' bug that would cause us to not
> resolve all user-space symbols in a 'git gc' run to:
>
> f5812a7a is first bad commit
> commit f5812a7a
> Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
> Date:   Tue Jun 30 11:43:17 2009 -0300
>
>     perf_counter tools: Adjust only prelinked symbol's addresses

Rename ->prelinked to ->adjust_symbols and making what was done
only for prelinked libraries also to ET_EXEC binaries, such as
/usr/bin/git:

[acme@doppio pahole]$ readelf -h /usr/bin/git | grep Type
  Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
[acme@doppio pahole]$

And after installing the 'git-debuginfo' package, I get correct results:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report --sort comm,dso,symbol -d /usr/bin/git | head -20

 #
 # (1139614 samples)
 #
 # Overhead           Command  Shared Object              Symbol
 # ........  ................  .........................  ......
 #
    34.98%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] send_sideband
    33.39%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] enter_repo
     6.81%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] diff_opt_parse
     4.95%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] is_repository_shallow
     3.24%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] odb_mkstemp
     1.39%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] output
     1.34%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] xmmap
     1.25%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] receive_pack_config
     1.16%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] git_pathdup
     0.90%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] read_object_with_reference
     0.86%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] show_patch_diff
     0.85%               git  /usr/bin/git               0x00000000095e2e
     0.69%               git  /usr/bin/git               [.] display
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

I'll check what are the last cases where we can't resolve symbols, like
this 0x00000000095e2e later.

And I guess this will fix the problems Mike were seeing too:

 [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ readelf -h ../build/perf/vmlinux | grep Type
   Type:                              EXEC (Executable file)
 [acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <new-submission>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>