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authorWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>2013-09-14 10:32:59 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2013-10-09 11:42:20 -0300
commitfc2be6968e99b5314f20e938a547d44dcb1c40eb (patch)
tree5ffc3b6398ec53978814935700210be0821207b3 /tools
parentdd96c46b5c765a779d8c35cc7d1df7515b4c7baf (diff)
perf symbols: Add new option --ignore-vmlinux for perf top
Running "perf top" on a machine with possibly invalid or non-matching vmlinux at the various places results in no symbol resolving despite /proc/kallsyms being present and valid. Add a new option --ignore-vmlinux to explicitly indicate that we do not want to use these kernels and just use what we have (kallsyms). Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130914083259.GA3418@1wt.eu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-top.c2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/symbol.c4
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/symbol.h1
3 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index e8466956adb..65c49b2f51c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1073,6 +1073,8 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
"list of cpus to monitor"),
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_BOOLEAN('K', "hide_kernel_symbols", &top.hide_kernel_symbols,
"hide kernel symbols"),
OPT_CALLBACK('m', "mmap-pages", &opts->mmap_pages, "pages",
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index cd1dcc45049..48c38791d61 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ static int dso__load_kernel_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map,
goto do_kallsyms;
}
- if (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name != NULL) {
+ if (!symbol_conf.ignore_vmlinux && symbol_conf.vmlinux_name != NULL) {
err = dso__load_vmlinux(dso, map,
symbol_conf.vmlinux_name, filter);
if (err > 0) {
@@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ static int dso__load_kernel_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map,
return err;
}
- if (vmlinux_path != NULL) {
+ if (!symbol_conf.ignore_vmlinux && vmlinux_path != NULL) {
err = dso__load_vmlinux_path(dso, map, filter);
if (err > 0)
return err;
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
index 2a97bb1a809..9b8b213a62c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@ struct symbol_conf {
unsigned short priv_size;
unsigned short nr_events;
bool try_vmlinux_path,
+ ignore_vmlinux,
show_kernel_path,
use_modules,
sort_by_name,