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 <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Eric B Munson <emunson@mgebm.net> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110830091506.60b51fe8@kryten Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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