Bug#661193: linux-tools-3.2: perf fails to annotate code with separate debug info under some conditions

[Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>]

Control: found -1 linux-tools/4.2-2
Control: tags -1 + fixed-upstream

On 2012-02-24 23:11 +0100, Sami Liedes wrote:

> Package: linux-tools-3.2
> Version: 3.2.1-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi!
>
> perf report does not show source code lines (annotation) for some
> binaries with separate debug information if those build-id's have been
> cached in perf's build-id cache. This is true for at least those
> packages whose debug symbols are installed in
> /usr/lib/debug/path/binary and not in
> /usr/lib/debug/.build-id/.../$hash. For example, e2fslibs, e2fsprogs
> and I believe very many others packages are affected by this (the
> mentioned packages even after fixing their -dbg packages per #661071).

This should be fixed in Linus' tree with commit
5baecbcd9c9a2f491afe1369fc22e7363f9c94d5[1], but I haven't tested it.

Cheers,
       Sven


1. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5baecbcd9c9a2f491afe1369fc22e7363f9c94d5