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authorStephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>2011-07-30 01:20:40 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-08-18 07:40:34 -0300
commite71a059832753a8834a5a5080366879954ccdc4d (patch)
tree83268a902907320f839057ad2202d33d375c7df1 /tools/perf
parentperf annotate: Make output more readable (diff)
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perf annotate: Add --symfs option
If you have --symfs in perf report, then you also need it for perf annotate. This allows off-box assembly level analysis of perf.data samples. This patch complements: commit ec5761eab318e50e69fcf8e63e9edaef5949c067 Author: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Date: Thu Dec 9 13:27:07 2010 -0700 perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified tree Acked-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110729232040.GA21838@quad Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
index 5bc06001557f..98a31e3181a5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
@@ -80,6 +80,9 @@ OPTIONS
Interleave source code with assembly code. Enabled by default,
disable with --no-source.
+--symfs=<directory>::
+ Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
index 5015e04b8214..c5be28851f01 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
OPT_BOOLEAN('P', "full-paths", &full_paths,
"Don't shorten the displayed pathnames"),
OPT_STRING('c', "cpu", &cpu_list, "cpu", "list of cpus to profile"),
+ OPT_STRING(0, "symfs", &symbol_conf.symfs, "directory",
+ "Look for files with symbols relative to this directory"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('0', "source", &symbol_conf.annotate_src,
"Interleave source code with assembly code (default)"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('0', "asm-raw", &symbol_conf.annotate_asm_raw,