Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762484Ab2FVQOz (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:14:55 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f174.google.com ([209.85.213.174]:33413 "EHLO mail-yx0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753788Ab2FVQOx (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:14:53 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 13:14:49 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: David Ahern Cc: Namhyung Kim , Peter Zijlstra , Paul Mackerras , Ingo Molnar , LKML , Jiri Olsa Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCHSET 0/8] perf tools: Minimal build without libelf dependency (v2) Message-ID: <20120622161449.GL17747@infradead.org> References: <1340343462-15556-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org> <1340358478.18025.51.camel@twins> <1340377510.1478.10.camel@leonhard> <4FE48CCA.2050506@gmail.com> <1340379000.1478.34.camel@leonhard> <4FE490C9.1020903@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4FE490C9.1020903@gmail.com> X-Url: http://acmel.wordpress.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1092 Lines: 25 Em Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 09:35:37AM -0600, David Ahern escreveu: > On 6/22/12 9:30 AM, Namhyung Kim wrote: > >>And build-id's are not required for report (-B option for record). > >>Also, the intent is for a small footprint binary for embedded systems. > >>On such a system I would expect binaries and libraries to be stripped, > >>so no point in running perf-archive. > >But is there a chance that binaries on host still contains symbol (and > >debug) information even for those cases? > > AFAIK embedded systems do not have the luxury of symbols; the goal > is as small as possible. All debugging information is left on the > build servers for off line analysis. That's certainly true for the > product I work on. I think at least the .dymsym symbol table is present in DSOs, aka libraries, otherwise how will they dynamicly link? - Arnaldo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/