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perf record: Support custom vmlinux path
authorHe Kuang <[email protected]>
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:39:23 +0000 (10:39 +0000)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:04:12 +0000 (13:04 -0300)
commit7efe0e034c713716060bc7794c7e332589980c70
tree3cdd3a8257e75551fdacbcbe17af85f0ceda10ee
parent48e1cab1ba4db84fbc26379b887ba94a180347fe
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 <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-record.txt
tools/perf/builtin-record.c
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