[PATCH 4/4] perf: parse the .debug_frame section in case .eh_frame is not present

Jean Pihet jean.pihet at linaro.org
Tue Oct 8 06:44:56 EDT 2013


Hi,

On 26 September 2013 14:49, Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 01:36:38PM +0200, Jean Pihet wrote:
>> On ARM the debug info is not present in the .eh_frame sections but
>> in .debug_frame instead, in dwarf format.
>> Use libunwind to load and parse the debug info.
>>
>> Dependencies:
>>  . if present, libunwind >= 1.1 is needed to prevent a segfault when
>>    parsing the dwarf info,
>>  . libunwind needs to be configured with --enable-debug-frame. Note:
>>    --enable-debug-frame is automatically selected on ARM.
>
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa at redhat.com>
>
> thanks,
> jirka


Thanks for the ack!

Is it possible to get an ack from the perf core maintainers?
Also, is the patch going in Will's tree?

Regards,
Jean



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