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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-11-27 10:31:03 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-12-17 14:54:40 -0300
commit1b3aae90c6abdf8a844da2aa4aed1eb6947a7d39 (patch)
tree0fca22e21f71152d5ee374bbac3998afd4fbeb9d /tools
parent19702894cd93d79c5b5a63f56f6f417595b1a57c (diff)
perf top: Allow passing a kallsyms file
This basically replicates what was done for 'perf report' in: b226a5a72901 ("perf report: Allow user to specify path to kallsyms file") This should help with resolving eBPF symbols, that are in kallsyms but, of course, not in vmlinux. Reported-by: Ivan Babrou <ibobrik@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ivan Babrou <ibobrik@gmail.com> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-x52mx1ybq8128rtg9hjrj5qk@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-top.c2
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
index 808b664343c9..44d89fb9c788 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ Default is to monitor all CPUS.
--ignore-vmlinux::
Ignore vmlinux files.
+--kallsyms=<file>::
+ kallsyms pathname
+
-m <pages>::
--mmap-pages=<pages>::
Number of mmap data pages (must be a power of two) or size
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index aa0c73e57924..1252d1759064 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1289,6 +1289,8 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv)
"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('K', "hide_kernel_symbols", &top.hide_kernel_symbols,
"hide kernel symbols"),
OPT_CALLBACK('m', "mmap-pages", &opts->mmap_pages, "pages",