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perf symbols: Don't try to find a vmlinux file when looking for kernel modules

The dso->kernel value is now set to everything that is in
machine->kmaps, but that was being used to decide if vmlinux lookup is
needed, which ended up making that lookup be made for kernel modules,
that now have dso->kernel set, leading to these kinds of warnings when
running on a machine with compressed kernel modules, like fedora:31:

  [root@five ~]# perf record -F 10000 -a sleep 2
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  lzma: fopen failed on vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /boot/vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /boot/vmlinux-5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /lib/modules/5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64/build/vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /boot/vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /boot/vmlinux-5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /lib/modules/5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64/build/vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /boot/vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /boot/vmlinux-5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /lib/modules/5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64/build/vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /boot/vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /boot/vmlinux-5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /lib/modules/5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64/build/vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /boot/vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /boot/vmlinux-5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /usr/lib/debug/boot/vmlinux-5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64: 'No such file or directory'
  lzma: fopen failed on /lib/modules/5.5.5-200.fc31.x86_64/build/vmlinux: 'No such file or directory'
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 1.024 MB perf.data (1366 samples) ]
  [root@five ~]#

This happens when collecting the buildid, when we find samples for
kernel modules, fix it by checking if the looked up DSO is a kernel
module by other means.

Fixes: 02213cec

 ("perf maps: Mark module DSOs with kernel type")
Tested-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@amd.com>
Cc: Michael Petlan <mpetlan@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200302191007.GD10335@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent e4d9b04b
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