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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] perf tools: allow map files to specify DSO
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From:   Josh Hunt <johunt@akamai.com>
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Date:   Mon, 7 May 2018 14:30:32 -0700
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On 05/07/2018 11:40 AM, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Mon, May 07, 2018 at 02:24:16PM -0400, Josh Hunt wrote:
>> Add the ability to specify a DSO in the /tmp/perf-<PID>.map file.
>> The DSO should be the first line in the file and readable by the
>> running user. If a valid DSO is found all other contents of the
>> file will be ignored. This allows things like callchain unwinding
>> with DWARF to work.
> 
> FWIW it's ok, but also obsolete with Kirill's large-pages-in-tmpfs
> work in newer kernels. With that you can just copy the executable into
> a 2MB tmpfs and disable the manual huge page copying and everything
> should work as usually.
> 
> So essentially it's only a hack for old kernels and old binaries.
> 
> But doesn't hurt I guess.

Ah, very interesting. I wasn't aware of this. Can you point me to some 
more details on this process?

Thanks
Josh