Description of problem:

Even when opreport is supposed to compare two archives created previously by oparchive, it still seeks for the original session dir (like ./oprofile_data).

This issue has been pointed out by Henry May's question on oprofile list:
http://marc.info/?l=oprofile-list&m=144241622202345&w=2


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

The problem occurs on both RHEL oprofile-0.9.9 and upstream 1.1.


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:

1. grab some data by operf and create two archives to compare:

operf ls
oparchive -o archive1
operf ls
oparchive -o archive2

2. try to make a differential report by opreport:

opreport --merge=all -a -l --demangle=smart { archive:archive1 } { archive:archive2 }

3. remove (rename) the session dir:

mv oprofile_data oprofile_data_backup

4. try to make a differential report by opreport again:

opreport --merge=all -a -l --demangle=smart { archive:archive1 } { archive:archive2 }

5. try to make a differential report by opreport giving it the moved dir:

opreport --merge=all -a -l --demangle=smart --session-dir=./oprofile_data_backup { archive:archive1 } { archive:archive2 }


Actual results:

[A] When the oprofile_data dir is available, it shows the report.
[B] When the oprofile_data dir is not available, it ends with an error.
[C] When the oprofile_data dir is not available and it's given to opreport, it ends with an error too.

The B behaviour is caused by the fact that when no session-dir is specified, the ./oprofile_data is assumed as session dir and the function options::spec get_options() tries to stat it (pp/common_option.cpp:187).

The C behaviour is caused by the fact that archives store full paths. So if I rename the session dir to something else and give it to opreport via "--session-dir" option, opreport is happy that the renamed dir exists in the tree, but it does not exist in the archives, since they were created from the original oprofile_data dir.

Expected results:

The opreport tool is satisfied with the data stored in the archives (there should be everything) and does not seek for the original oprofile_data dir.


Additional info:

The same problem happens when only archive is specified and the oprofile_data dir is moved/renamed/removed:

opreport --merge=all -a -l --demangle=smart archive:archive1