Commit b3a018fc authored by James Clark's avatar James Clark Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

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: default avatarDenis Nikitin <denik@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJames Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarDenis Nikitin <denik@chromium.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018134844.2627174-4-james.clark@arm.com
[ Added the perf-inject man page entries for these options, as noted by Denis ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 7cc72553
......@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ OPTIONS
tasks slept. sched_switch contains a callchain where a task slept and
sched_stat contains a timeslice how long a task slept.
-k::
--vmlinux=<file>::
vmlinux pathname
--ignore-vmlinux::
Ignore vmlinux files.
--kallsyms=<file>::
kallsyms pathname
......
......@@ -940,6 +940,10 @@ 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"),
......@@ -974,6 +978,9 @@ 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");
......
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