This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
perf tools: Decompress kernel module when reading DSO data
to the 4.9-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-tools-decompress-kernel-module-when-reading-dso-data.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Mon Apr 9 17:09:24 CEST 2018
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 16:31:05 +0900
Subject: perf tools: Decompress kernel module when reading DSO data
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 1d6b3c9ba756a5134fd7ad1959acac776d17404b ]
Currently perf decompresses kernel modules when loading the symbol table
but it missed to do it when reading raw data.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: kernel-team@xxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170608073109.30699-6-namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/util/dso.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
--- a/tools/perf/util/dso.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/dso.c
@@ -366,7 +366,23 @@ static int __open_dso(struct dso *dso, s
if (!is_regular_file(name))
return -EINVAL;
+ if (dso__needs_decompress(dso)) {
+ char newpath[KMOD_DECOMP_LEN];
+ size_t len = sizeof(newpath);
+
+ if (dso__decompress_kmodule_path(dso, name, newpath, len) < 0) {
+ free(name);
+ return -dso->load_errno;
+ }
+
+ strcpy(name, newpath);
+ }
+
fd = do_open(name);
+
+ if (dso__needs_decompress(dso))
+ unlink(name);
+
free(name);
return fd;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/perf-report-fix-off-by-one-for-non-activation-frames.patch
queue-4.9/perf-trace-add-mmap-alias-for-s390.patch
queue-4.9/perf-report-ensure-the-perf-dso-mapping-matches-what-libdw-sees.patch
queue-4.9/perf-tools-fix-copyfile_offset-update-of-output-offset.patch
queue-4.9/perf-tools-decompress-kernel-module-when-reading-dso-data.patch
queue-4.9/perf-tests-decompress-kernel-module-before-objdump.patch
queue-4.9/perf-header-set-proper-module-name-when-build-id-event-found.patch