Allow user to specify path to kallsyms file
PATCH 1/1 Allow user to specify path to kallsyms file
This is useful for analyzing a perf data file on a different system than the one data was collected on and still include symbols from loaded kernel modules in the output.
Signed-off-by David Ahern <[email protected]>
--- tools/perf/builtin-report.c | 2 ++ tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 9 +++++++-- tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 1 + 3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
tools/perf/builtin-report.c +2 -0
@@ -442,6 +442,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = { "dump raw trace in ASCII"),OPT_STRING ('k' ,"vmlinux" , &symbol_conf.vmlinux_name,"file" ,"vmlinux pathname" ), +OPT_STRING (0 ,"kallsyms" , &symbol_conf.kallsyms_name, +"file" ,"kallsyms pathname" ),OPT_BOOLEAN ('f' ,"force" , &force,"don't complain, do it" ),OPT_BOOLEAN ('m' ,"modules" , &symbol_conf.use_modules, "load module symbols - WARNING: use only with -k and LIVE kernel"),
tools/perf/util/symbol.c +7 -2
@@ -1830,8 +1830,8 @@ static int dso__load_kernel_sym(struct dso *self, struct map *map,const char *kallsyms_filename =NULL ;char *kallsyms_allocated_filename =NULL ;/* -* Step 1: if the user specified a vmlinux filename, use it and only -* it, reporting errors to the user if it cannot be used. +* Step 1: if the user specified a kallsyms or vmlinux filename, use +* it and only it, reporting errors to the user if it cannot be used. * * For instance, try to analyse an ARM perf.data file _without_ a * build-id, or if the user specifies the wrong path to the right
@@ -1844,6 +1844,11 @@ static int dso__load_kernel_sym(struct dso *self, struct map *map,* validation in dso__load_vmlinux and will bail out if they don't * match. */ +if (symbol_conf.kallsyms_name !=NULL ) { + kallsyms_filename = symbol_conf.kallsyms_name; + goto do_kallsyms; + } +if (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name !=NULL ) { err =dso__load_vmlinux (self, map, symbol_conf.vmlinux_name, filter);
tools/perf/util/symbol.h +1 -0
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ struct symbol_conf { show_cpu_utilization, initialized;const char *vmlinux_name, + *kallsyms_name, *source_prefix, *field_sep; const char *default_guest_vmlinux_name,
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