[PATCH] perf: add --symfs option to perf annotate

From: Stephane Eranian
Date: Fri Jul 29 2011 - 19:19:54 EST



If you have --symfs in perf report, then you also need it
for perf annotate. This allows off-box assembly level analysis
of perf.data samples.

This patch complements:

commit ec5761eab318e50e69fcf8e63e9edaef5949c067
Author: David Ahern <daahern@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu Dec 9 13:27:07 2010 -0700

perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified tree

Signed-off-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@xxxxxxxxxx>
---

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
index 85c5f02..15919dd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
@@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ OPTIONS
CPUs are specified with -: 0-2. Default is to report samples on all
CPUs.

+--symfs=<directory>::
+ Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
index 555aefd..1605fbe 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
@@ -267,6 +267,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
OPT_BOOLEAN('P', "full-paths", &full_paths,
"Don't shorten the displayed pathnames"),
OPT_STRING('c', "cpu", &cpu_list, "cpu", "list of cpus to profile"),
+ OPT_STRING(0, "symfs", &symbol_conf.symfs, "directory",
+ "Look for files with symbols relative to this directory"),
OPT_END()
};

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