perf symbols: Synthesize anonymous mmap events

perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events does not create anonymous mmap events
even though the kernel does. As a result an already running application
with dynamically created code will not get profiled - all samples end up
in the unknown bucket.

This patch skips any entries with '[' in the name to avoid adding events
for special regions (eg the vsyscall page). All other executable mmaps
are assumed to be anonymous and an event is synthesized.

Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Cc: Eric B Munson <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110830091506.60b51fe8@kryten
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/event.c b/tools/perf/util/event.c
index 3c1b8a6321017efdb75fde50cbe5d1d520a62153..437f8ca679a07110872e752b475df0ff9a38ea4c 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/perf/util/event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/event.c
@@ -169,12 +169,17 @@ static int perf_event__synthesize_mmap_events(union perf_event *event,
                        continue;
                pbf += n + 3;
                if (*pbf == 'x') { /* vm_exec */
+                       char anonstr[] = "//anon\n";
                        char *execname = strchr(bf, '/');
 
                        /* Catch VDSO */
                        if (execname == NULL)
                                execname = strstr(bf, "[vdso]");
 
+                       /* Catch anonymous mmaps */
+                       if ((execname == NULL) && !strstr(bf, "["))
+                               execname = anonstr;
+
                        if (execname == NULL)
                                continue;