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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>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt
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@@ -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
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linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], linkperf:perf-archive[1]