[tip:perf/core] perf inject: Add --kallsyms parameter

tip-bot for Adrian Hunter
2014-07-28T08:28:29Z

Commit-ID: a7a2b8b4ce9e0bfd085c5797d535487594a71882
Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/a7a2b8b4ce9e0bfd085c5797d535487594a71882
Author: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:17:38 +0300
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
CommitDate: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:08:34 -0300

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>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt | 3 +++
tools/perf/builtin-inject.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt
index a00a342..dc7442c 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 cf6a605..9a02807 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[] = {