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perf symbols: Follow .gnu_debuglink section to find separate symbols

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The .gnu_debuglink section is specified to contain the filename of the
debug info file, as well as a CRC that can be used to validate it.

This doesn't currently use the checksum and relies on the usual build-id
matching for validation.

This provides more context:
http://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/Separate-Debug-Files.html

Signed-off-by: Pierre-Loup A. Griffais <pgriffais@nvidia.com>
Reported-by: Mike Sartain <mikesart@valvesoftware.com>
Tested-by: Mike Sartain <mikesart@valvesoftware.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Sartain <mikesart@valvesoftware.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4FE4BB95.3080309@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Pierre-Loup A. Griffais 2012-06-22 11:38:13 -07:00 • committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent da3789628f
commit 209bd9e3e1
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@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ enum symtab_type {
SYMTAB__KALLSYMS = 0,
SYMTAB__GUEST_KALLSYMS,
SYMTAB__JAVA_JIT,
SYMTAB__DEBUGLINK,
SYMTAB__BUILD_ID_CACHE,
SYMTAB__FEDORA_DEBUGINFO,
SYMTAB__UBUNTU_DEBUGINFO,