On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:17:32AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:13:50AM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu: > > Using the information in mmap events, perf tools can read object > > code associated with sampled addresses. A test is added that > > compares bytes read by perf with the same bytes read using > > objdump. > > So this parses objdump output, and we also already have the annotation > logic that does that too, have you thought about having common routines > for these two cases? >
Or better yet, stop using objdump like this and start using libbfd directly. The only reason we did horrible things like parsing objdump output is because nobody knew how the underlying stuff actually worked and we wanted to have something quick. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
