Looking up an ip's source file name and line
number does not succeed always.  Current logic
disables the lookup for a dso entirely on any
failure.  Change it so that disabling never
happens if there has ever been a successful
lookup for that dso but disable if the first
123 lookups fail.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com>
---
 tools/perf/util/dso.c     |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/dso.h     |  1 +
 tools/perf/util/srcline.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 3 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.c b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
index 49da968..a0c7c59 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/dso.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
@@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ struct dso *dso__new(const char *name)
                dso->sorted_by_name = 0;
                dso->has_build_id = 0;
                dso->has_srcline = 1;
+               dso->a2l_fails = 1;
                dso->kernel = DSO_TYPE_USER;
                dso->needs_swap = DSO_SWAP__UNSET;
                INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dso->node);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dso.h b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
index 7142e52..384f2d9 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/dso.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.h
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ struct dso {
        struct rb_root   cache;
        void             *a2l;
        char             *symsrc_filename;
+       unsigned int     a2l_fails;
        enum dso_kernel_type    kernel;
        enum dso_swap_type      needs_swap;
        enum dso_binary_type    symtab_type;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/srcline.c b/tools/perf/util/srcline.c
index e09c9e0..d351d62 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/srcline.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/srcline.c
@@ -193,6 +193,12 @@ void dso__free_a2l(struct dso *dso __maybe_unused)
 
 #endif /* HAVE_LIBBFD_SUPPORT */
 
+/*
+ * Number of addr2line failures (without success) before disabling it for that
+ * dso.
+ */
+#define A2L_FAIL_LIMIT 123
+
 char *get_srcline(struct dso *dso, unsigned long addr)
 {
        char *file = NULL;
@@ -217,15 +223,21 @@ char *get_srcline(struct dso *dso, unsigned long addr)
        if (!addr2line(dso_name, addr, &file, &line, dso))
                goto out;
 
-       if (asprintf(&srcline, "%s:%u", file, line) < 0)
-               srcline = SRCLINE_UNKNOWN;
+       if (asprintf(&srcline, "%s:%u", file, line) < 0) {
+               free(file);
+               goto out;
+       }
+
+       dso->a2l_fails = 0;
 
        free(file);
        return srcline;
 
 out:
-       dso->has_srcline = 0;
-       dso__free_a2l(dso);
+       if (dso->a2l_fails && ++dso->a2l_fails > A2L_FAIL_LIMIT) {
+               dso->has_srcline = 0;
+               dso__free_a2l(dso);
+       }
        return SRCLINE_UNKNOWN;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.11.7

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