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Richard Yao authored
Modules installed outside of the kernel's build system should go into "%s/lib/modules/%s/extra", but at present, perf will only look at them when they are in "%s/lib/modules/%s/kernel". Lets encourage good citizenship by relaxing this requirement to "%s/lib/modules/%s". This way open source modules that are out-of-tree have no incentive to start populating a directory reserved for in-kernel modules and I can stop hex-editing my system's perf binary when profiling OSS out-of-tree modules. Feedback from Namhyung Kim correctly revealed that the hex-edits that I had been doing meant that perf was also traversing the build and source symlinks in %s/lib/modules/%s. That is undesireable, so we explicitly exclude them from traversal with a minor tweak to the traversal routine. Signed-off-by:
Richard Yao <ryao@gentoo.org> Acked-by:
Namhyung kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1398532675-13684-1-git-send-email-ryao@gentoo.orgSigned-off-by:
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
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