linux-stable/tools/perf/Documentation/jit-interface.txt
Andi Kleen 0fe7d7e976 perf symbols: Add description of JIT interface
Add a description of the JIT interface in the perf symbol resolution
code. I reverse engineered the format from the source.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1344526260-18721-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-08-13 14:55:02 -03:00

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perf supports a simple JIT interface to resolve symbols for dynamic code generated
by a JIT.
The JIT has to write a /tmp/perf-%d.map (%d = pid of process) file
This is a text file.
Each line has the following format, fields separated with spaces:
START SIZE symbolname
START and SIZE are hex numbers without 0x.
symbolname is the rest of the line, so it could contain special characters.
The ownership of the file has to match the process.