This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled perf top: Don't complain about lack of vmlinux when not resolving some kernel samples to the 6.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: perf-top-don-t-complain-about-lack-of-vmlinux-when-n.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f8868d6a0d8ff462117e103fd4cbbaf94cd77322 Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jan 2 16:50:39 2025 -0300 perf top: Don't complain about lack of vmlinux when not resolving some kernel samples [ Upstream commit 058b38ccd2af9e5c95590b018e8425fa148d7aca ] Recently we got a case where a kernel sample wasn't being resolved due to a bug that was not setting the end address on kernel functions implemented in assembly (see Link: tag), and then those were not being found by machine__resolve() -> map__find_symbol(). So we ended up with: # perf top --stdio PerfTop: 0 irqs/s kernel: 0% exact: 0% lost: 0/0 drop: 0/0 [cycles/P] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Warning: A vmlinux file was not found. Kernel samples will not be resolved. ^Z [1]+ Stopped perf top --stdio # But then resolving all other kernel symbols. So just fixup the logic to only print that warning when there are no symbols in the kernel map. Fixes: d88205db9caa0e9d ("perf dso: Add dso__has_symbols() method") Reviewed-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z3buKhcCsZi3_aGb@x1 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c index 724a793863212..ca3e8eca6610e 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c @@ -809,7 +809,7 @@ static void perf_event__process_sample(const struct perf_tool *tool, * invalid --vmlinux ;-) */ if (!machine->kptr_restrict_warned && !top->vmlinux_warned && - __map__is_kernel(al.map) && map__has_symbols(al.map)) { + __map__is_kernel(al.map) && !map__has_symbols(al.map)) { if (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name) { char serr[256];