linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/3] perf inject: Add vmlinux and ignore-vmlinux arguments

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Message-Id: <20211018134844.2627174-4-james.clark@arm.com>
Date:   Mon, 18 Oct 2021 14:48:43 +0100
From:   James Clark <james.clark@....com>
To:     acme@...nel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     denik@...omium.org, James Clark <james.clark@....com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] perf inject: Add vmlinux and ignore-vmlinux arguments

Other perf tools allow specifying the path to vmlinux. Perf inject
didn't have this argument which made some auxtrace workflows difficult.

Also add ignore-vmlinux for consistency with other tools.

Suggested-by: Denis Nitikin <denik@...omium.org>
Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@....com>
---
 tools/perf/builtin-inject.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
index 6ad191e731fc..4261ad89730f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-inject.c
@@ -938,6 +938,10 @@ int cmd_inject(int argc, const char **argv)
 #endif
 		OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 			 "be more verbose (show build ids, etc)"),
+		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", &data.force, "don't complain, do it"),
@@ -972,6 +976,9 @@ int cmd_inject(int argc, const char **argv)
 		return -1;
 	}
 
+	if (symbol__validate_sym_arguments())
+		return -1;
+
 	if (inject.in_place_update) {
 		if (!strcmp(inject.input_name, "-")) {
 			pr_err("Input file name required for in-place updating\n");
-- 
2.28.0