From 46db2c3205ca6e24adbb9b038441bc8f65360535 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:27:39 -0300 Subject: [PATCH] perf record: Add a fallback to the reference relocation symbol MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Usually "_text" is enough, but I received reports that its not always available, so fallback to "_stext" for the symbol we use to check if we need to apply any relocation to all the symbols in the kernel symtab, for when, for instance, kexec is being used. Reported-by: Darren Hart Reported-by: Steven Rostedt Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c index 3b8b638..f1411e9 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c @@ -563,6 +563,9 @@ static int __cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv) err = event__synthesize_kernel_mmap(process_synthesized_event, session, "_text"); + if (err < 0) + err = event__synthesize_kernel_mmap(process_synthesized_event, + session, "_stext"); if (err < 0) { pr_err("Couldn't record kernel reference relocation symbol.\n"); return err; -- 1.8.2.3