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authorDavid Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>2010-12-07 19:39:46 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-12-09 11:07:07 -0200
commitb226a5a72901bc9c73d639ea2e53e6c304bf3b74 (patch)
tree3cc388b8450f95af1909c1ce00978b5db6ed17a5 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent2c6cb1053ad8b61ab9fb50b578d0ffea959f7583 (diff)
perf report: 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. Commiter note: Updated the man page accordingly. LKML-Reference: <1291775986-16475-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 59a1f57f2bb..fefea77ec6e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ OPTIONS
--vmlinux=<file>::
vmlinux pathname
+--kallsyms=<file>::
+ kallsyms pathname
+
-m::
--modules::
Load module symbols. WARNING: This should only be used with -k and