[PATCH tip 1/1] perf tools: Make dso__new handle deleted DSOs

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

It is better than showing the map addr, this way at least we know that we can't
get the symtabs because the DSO was deleted (system update) while an app still
used such DSO.

Yeah, don't do that, but if you do, you'll figure it out quicker this
way.

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report | head -15
# Samples: 3796
#
# Overhead  Command                                                        Shared Object  Symbol
# ........  .......  ...................................................................  ......
#
    23.55%   pidgin  /lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.2000.4.#prelink#.Pd98lu (deleted)            [.] 0x00000000038844
    21.55%   pidgin  /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so.#prelink#.AFwK8Q (deleted)               [.] 0x0000000000a42d
    10.85%   pidgin  [kernel]                                                             [.] vread_hpet
     7.85%   pidgin  /lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2000.4.#prelink#.o1vpU7 (deleted)         [.] 0x00000000014de8
     3.35%   pidgin  /lib64/libc-2.10.1.so (deleted)                                      [.] 0x0000000007a875
     3.19%   pidgin  /lib64/libdbus-1.so.3.4.0.#prelink#.6mwgZP (deleted)                 [.] 0x0000000001d254
     3.06%   pidgin  /usr/lib64/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5.#prelink#.511hAl (deleted)     [.] 0x000000002334e7
     2.90%   pidgin  /usr/lib64/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0.1600.5.#prelink#.5qlMo1 (deleted)     [.] 0x00000000037b2d
     1.84%   pidgin  [kernel]                                                             [k] do_sys_poll
     1.45%   pidgin  /usr/lib64/libX11.so.6.2.0.#prelink#.iR59Rx (deleted)                [.] 0x0000000004c751
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

Cc: Luis Claudio R. Gonçalves <lclaudio@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Clark Williams <williams@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/perf/util/symbol.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index 2473fd4..5c0f42e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -801,6 +801,8 @@ more:
 	}
 out:
 	free(name);
+	if (ret < 0 && strstr(self->name, " (deleted)") != NULL)
+		return 0;
 	return ret;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.2.5

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