perf tools: Add perf_exe() helper to find perf binary

Also convert one existing user.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190224153722.27020-9-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/util.c b/tools/perf/util/util.c
index 706818693086..d388f80d8703 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/util.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/util.c
@@ -568,3 +568,13 @@ out:
 
         return tip;
 }
+
+char *perf_exe(char *buf, int len)
+{
+        int n = readlink("/proc/self/exe", buf, len);
+        if (n > 0) {
+                buf[n] = 0;
+                return buf;
+        }
+        return strcpy(buf, "perf");
+}