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authorAdrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>2014-07-22 16:17:38 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2014-07-25 12:08:34 -0300
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perf inject: Add --kallsyms parameter
Let perf inject take --kallsyms parameter the same as perf script and perf report do. That is needed for decoding Instruction Trace data using a copy of /proc/kcore for the kernel object because the kallsyms path is used to locate that copy. Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406035081-14301-30-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-inject.c2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt
index a00a34276c54..dc7442cf3d7f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ OPTIONS
tasks slept. sched_switch contains a callchain where a task slept and
sched_stat contains a timeslice how long a task slept.
+--kallsyms=<file>::
+ kallsyms pathname
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], linkperf:perf-archive[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
index cf6a605a13e8..9a02807387d6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
@@ -439,6 +439,8 @@ int cmd_inject(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
"where and how long tasks slept"),
OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
"be more verbose (show build ids, etc)"),
+ OPT_STRING(0, "kallsyms", &symbol_conf.kallsyms_name, "file",
+ "kallsyms pathname"),
OPT_END()
};
const char * const inject_usage[] = {