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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-05-27 18:53:28 +0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-05-27 23:02:25 +0400
commit5f6f55809758e106eca72c6e01402c8080a88ee8 (patch)
tree23a21a57154fc589d4606a6ef1856cc1b38d93e2 /tools
parent59fb1ee95e74e8e0777289c44300cbe812aca836 (diff)
downloadlinux-5f6f55809758e106eca72c6e01402c8080a88ee8.tar.xz
perf top: Handle kptr_restrict
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-cyl5zmi1nu35vyu7l5im2pyv@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-top.c15
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 375ed160d936..472f62790022 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ static bool use_tui, use_stdio;
static int default_interval = 0;
+static bool kptr_restrict_warned;
static bool inherit = false;
static int realtime_prio = 0;
static bool group = false;
@@ -738,6 +739,20 @@ static void perf_event__process_sample(const union perf_event *event,
al.filtered)
return;
+ if (!kptr_restrict_warned &&
+ symbol_conf.kptr_restrict &&
+ al.cpumode == PERF_RECORD_MISC_KERNEL) {
+ ui__warning(
+"Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) are restricted.\n\n"
+"Check /proc/sys/kernel/kptr_restrict.\n\n"
+"Kernel%s samples will not be resolved.\n",
+ !RB_EMPTY_ROOT(&al.map->dso->symbols[MAP__FUNCTION]) ?
+ " modules" : "");
+ if (use_browser <= 0)
+ sleep(5);
+ kptr_restrict_warned = true;
+ }
+
if (al.sym == NULL) {
/*
* As we do lazy loading of symtabs we only will know if the