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Date:	Mon, 28 Jul 2014 01:27:31 -0700
From:	tip-bot for Adrian Hunter <tipbot@...or.com>
To:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
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Subject: [tip:perf/core] perf inject: Add --kallsyms parameter

Commit-ID:  a7a2b8b4ce9e0bfd085c5797d535487594a71882
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/a7a2b8b4ce9e0bfd085c5797d535487594a71882
Author:     Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:17:38 +0300
Committer:  Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...hat.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@...el.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@...gle.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@...hat.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[] = {
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