perf machine: Add a kallsyms loading constructor
To reduce the boilerplate for searching for functions in the running
kernel and modules.
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-93iqzayafpaxaguoiwjqezgz@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/machine.c b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
index 9b33bef..747a034 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/machine.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/machine.c
@@ -87,6 +87,25 @@ struct machine *machine__new_host(void)
return NULL;
}
+struct machine *machine__new_kallsyms(void)
+{
+ struct machine *machine = machine__new_host();
+ /*
+ * FIXME:
+ * 1) MAP__FUNCTION will go away when we stop loading separate maps for
+ * functions and data objects.
+ * 2) We should switch to machine__load_kallsyms(), i.e. not explicitely
+ * ask for not using the kcore parsing code, once this one is fixed
+ * to create a map per module.
+ */
+ if (machine && __machine__load_kallsyms(machine, "/proc/kallsyms", MAP__FUNCTION, true) <= 0) {
+ machine__delete(machine);
+ machine = NULL;
+ }
+
+ return machine;
+}
+
static void dsos__purge(struct dsos *dsos)
{
struct dso *pos, *n;