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perf script: Switch from perf.data's kallsyms to perf's symbol resolver

We were storing a copy of kallsyms inside perf.data file so that we
could resolve kernel addresses to function (start, name, mod) tuples,
but that can be achieved using the symbol resolving routines we have
in symbols.c, and that are used elsewhere in tools/perf.

So, do just like 'perf trace' did and ask libtraceevent to use perf's
symbol resolution routines.

The next step is to just skip whatever kallsyms data is embedded in
older perf.data files and finally to stop storing kallsyms in the perf
data file, as the 20-bytes build-id stored in perf.data's header is
enough to find out the right symtab (be it ELF, kcore, kallsyms, etc) to
use.

Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-d0rtb8tk9j72pz0ehw5fnp24@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

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tools/perf/builtin-script.c
··· 1830 1830 else 1831 1831 symbol_conf.use_callchain = false; 1832 1832 1833 + if (pevent_set_function_resolver(session->tevent.pevent, 1834 + machine__resolve_kernel_addr, 1835 + &session->machines.host) < 0) { 1836 + pr_err("%s: failed to set libtraceevent function resolver\n", __func__); 1837 + return -1; 1838 + } 1839 + 1833 1840 if (generate_script_lang) { 1834 1841 struct stat perf_stat; 1835 1842 int input;