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perf report: Add warning when libunwind not compiled in

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We received a user report that call-graph DWARF mode was enabled in
'perf record' but 'perf report' didn't unwind the callstack correctly.
The reason was, libunwind was not compiled in.

We can use 'perf -vv' to check the compiled libraries but it would be
valuable to report a warning to user directly (especially valuable for
a perf newbie).

The warning is:

Warning:
Please install libunwind development packages during the perf build.

Both TUI and stdio are supported.

Signed-off-by: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191011022122.26369-1-yao.jin@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Jin Yao 2019-10-11 10:21:22 +08:00 committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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@ -399,6 +399,13 @@ static int report__setup_sample_type(struct report *rep)
PERF_SAMPLE_BRANCH_ANY))
rep->nonany_branch_mode = true;
#ifndef HAVE_LIBUNWIND_SUPPORT
if (dwarf_callchain_users) {
ui__warning("Please install libunwind development packages "
"during the perf build.\n");
}
#endif
return 0;
}