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perf report: Allow user to specify path to kallsyms file

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This is useful for analyzing a perf data file on a different system than
the one data was collected on and still include symbols from loaded
kernel modules in the output.

Commiter note: Updated the man page accordingly.

LKML-Reference: <1291775986-16475-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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David Ahern
2010-12-07 19:39:46 -07:00
committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 2c6cb1053a
commit b226a5a729
4 changed files with 13 additions and 2 deletions
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tools/perf/util/symbol.c
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@@ -1830,8 +1830,8 @@ static int dso__load_kernel_sym(struct dso *self, struct map *map,
const char *kallsyms_filename = NULL;
char *kallsyms_allocated_filename = NULL;
/*
* Step 1: if the user specified a vmlinux filename, use it and only
* it, reporting errors to the user if it cannot be used.
* Step 1: if the user specified a kallsyms or vmlinux filename, use
* it and only it, reporting errors to the user if it cannot be used.
*
* For instance, try to analyse an ARM perf.data file _without_ a
* build-id, or if the user specifies the wrong path to the right
@@ -1844,6 +1844,11 @@ static int dso__load_kernel_sym(struct dso *self, struct map *map,
* validation in dso__load_vmlinux and will bail out if they don't
* match.
*/
if (symbol_conf.kallsyms_name != NULL) {
kallsyms_filename = symbol_conf.kallsyms_name;
goto do_kallsyms;
}
if (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name != NULL) {
err = dso__load_vmlinux(self, map,
symbol_conf.vmlinux_name, filter);