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authorHe Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>2015-12-14 10:39:23 +0000
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-12-14 13:04:12 -0300
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parent48e1cab1ba4db84fbc26379b887ba94a180347fe (diff)
perf record: Support custom vmlinux path
Make perf-record command support --vmlinux option if BPF_PROLOGUE is on. 'perf record' needs vmlinux as the source of DWARF info to generate prologue for BPF programs, so path of vmlinux should be specified. Short name 'k' has been taken by 'clockid'. This patch skips the short option name and uses '--vmlinux' for vmlinux path. Documentation is also updated. Test result: In a production (or broken) environment: (by: # rm -rf ~/.debug/ # mv /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/vmlinux /tmp/ ) # ./perf record -e ./test_bpf_base.c ls Failed to find the path for kernel: No such file or directory event syntax error: './test_bpf_base.c' \___ You need to check probing points in BPF file ... # ./perf record --vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux -e ./test_bpf_base.c ls ... [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data ] Help messages when build with NO_LIBBPF: # ./perf record -h --transaction sample transaction flags (special events only) --vmlinux <file> vmlinux pathname (not built-in because NO_LIBBPF=1) # ./perf record --vmlinux /tmp/vmlinux ls / Warning: option `vmlinux' is being ignored because NO_LIBBPF=1 ... [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ] [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.011 MB perf.data (11 samples) ] Help messages when build with NO_DWARF: # ./perf record -h --transaction sample transaction flags (special events only) --vmlinux <file> vmlinux pathname (not built-in because NO_DWARF=1) Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com> Cc: pi3orama@163.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450089563-122430-15-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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