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author | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2015-12-15 14:52:16 -0300 |
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committer | André Fabian Silva Delgado <emulatorman@parabola.nu> | 2015-12-15 14:52:16 -0300 |
commit | 8d91c1e411f55d7ea91b1183a2e9f8088fb4d5be (patch) | |
tree | e9891aa6c295060d065adffd610c4f49ecf884f3 /tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c | |
parent | a71852147516bc1cb5b0b3cbd13639bfd4022dc8 (diff) |
Linux-libre 4.3.2-gnu
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c')
-rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c | 28 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c index 54d9e9b54..b67a0ccf5 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/trace-event-read.c @@ -162,25 +162,23 @@ out: static int read_proc_kallsyms(struct pevent *pevent) { unsigned int size; - char *buf; size = read4(pevent); if (!size) return 0; - - buf = malloc(size + 1); - if (buf == NULL) - return -1; - - if (do_read(buf, size) < 0) { - free(buf); - return -1; - } - buf[size] = '\0'; - - parse_proc_kallsyms(pevent, buf, size); - - free(buf); + /* + * Just skip it, now that we configure libtraceevent to use the + * tools/perf/ symbol resolver. + * + * We need to skip it so that we can continue parsing old perf.data + * files, that contains this /proc/kallsyms payload. + * + * Newer perf.data files will have just the 4-bytes zeros "kallsyms + * payload", so that older tools can continue reading it and interpret + * it as "no kallsyms payload is present". + */ + lseek(input_fd, size, SEEK_CUR); + trace_data_size += size; return 0; } |