perf report: Add debug help for the finding of symbol bugs - show the symtab origin (DSO, build-id, kernel, etc)

Used with perf report --verbose:

[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$ perf report -v | head -16
     5.17%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so   0x00000000005d8eee f [.] imgContainer::DrawFrameTo(gfxIImageFrame*, gfxIImageFrame*, nsRect&)
     2.56%  firefox  /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so            0x0000000000008e02 d [.] __pthread_mutex_lock_internal
     1.94%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libxul.so   0x0000000000d0af8f f [.] SearchTable
     1.75%  firefox  [kernel]                               0xffffffffff60013b k [.] vread_hpet
     1.63%  firefox  /lib64/libpthread-2.10.1.so            0x000000000000a404 d [.] __pthread_mutex_unlock
     1.47%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x00000000000482ea f [.] js_Interpret
     1.42%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x000000000003eda3 f [.] JS_CallTracer
     1.24%  firefox  [kernel]                               0xffffffff8102ca4a k [k] read_hpet
     1.16%  firefox  [kernel]                               0xffffffff810f3dd4 k [k] fget_light
     1.11%  firefox  /usr/lib64/xulrunner-1.9.1/libmozjs.so 0x00000000000567ff f [.] js_TraceObject
     0.98%  firefox  /usr/lib64/firefox-3.5.2/firefox       0x000000000000dd23 b [.] arena_ralloc
[acme@doppio linux-2.6-tip]$

The new field is just after the symbol address. To help in
figuring out symbol resolution bugs.

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
index 2f92b21c712d..1e003ec2f4b1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ struct dso {
         unsigned int     sym_priv_size;
         unsigned char    adjust_symbols;
         unsigned char    slen_calculated;
+        unsigned char    origin;
         char             name[0];
 };
 
@@ -49,6 +50,7 @@ int dso__load_modules(struct dso *self, symbol_filter_t filter, int verbose);
 int dso__load(struct dso *self, symbol_filter_t filter, int verbose);
 
 size_t dso__fprintf(struct dso *self, FILE *fp);
+char dso__symtab_origin(const struct dso *self);
 
 void symbol__init(void);
 #endif /* _PERF_SYMBOL_ */