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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-03-16 16:27:04 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-03-21 12:53:42 -0300
commit91340c5184f316d687d4522b9aa41b56d58a49b0 (patch)
tree852e8d528ae90d237a58046f3f34608baaa26cec /tools/perf
parentperf annotate: Introduce --ignore-vmlinux command line option (diff)
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perf report: Introduce --ignore-vmlinux command line option
We've had this in 'perf top' for quite a while, useful if one wishes to force using /proc/kcore to do annotation using the patched kernel instead of the ELF image it started from, aka vmlinux. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jin Yao <yao.jin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-ircpvox4wzsv7gasrpb28fw9@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-report.c2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index cba16d8a970e..e1a660e60849 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -296,6 +296,9 @@ OPTIONS
--vmlinux=<file>::
vmlinux pathname
+--ignore-vmlinux::
+ Ignore vmlinux files.
+
--kallsyms=<file>::
kallsyms pathname
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index 1a82f38671a8..0f198f6d9b77 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -1018,6 +1018,8 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv)
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "mmaps", &report.mmaps_mode, "Display recorded tasks memory maps"),
OPT_STRING('k', "vmlinux", &symbol_conf.vmlinux_name,
"file", "vmlinux pathname"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "ignore-vmlinux", &symbol_conf.ignore_vmlinux,
+ "don't load vmlinux even if found"),
OPT_STRING(0, "kallsyms", &symbol_conf.kallsyms_name,
"file", "kallsyms pathname"),
OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &symbol_conf.force, "don't complain, do it"),