debuginfod-enabled Sysprof

Based on some initial work by Barnabás Pőcze Sysprof gained support for symbolizing stack traces using debuginfod.

If you don’t want to install debuginfo packages for your entire system but still want really useful function names, this is for you. The system-configured debuginfod servers will provide you access to those debuginfo-enabled ELF binaries so that we can discover the appropriate symbol names.

Much like in gdb, you can cancel them if you don’t care and those symbols will fallback to the “In File lib.so+offset” you’re used to.

A screenshot showing a popover of symbols being downloaded.

I expect a bit more UI work around this before GNOME 48 like preferences to disable it or configure alternate debuginfod servers.

Happy profiling!

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