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

Jiri Olsa jolsa at redhat.com
Thu Sep 26 08:49:18 EDT 2013


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



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