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authorDavid Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>2011-03-09 22:23:27 -0700
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-03-14 17:06:50 -0300
commitc0230b2bfbd16e42d937c34aed99e5d6493eb5e4 (patch)
tree352cbe720b4b0bbe65c302c4a3977e21ba722a78 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent745f43e3433a7939bd9c351c8106e0c1db2044c6 (diff)
perf script: Add support for dumping symbols
Add option to dump symbols found in events. e.g., perf script -f comm,pid,tid,time,trace,sym swapper 0/0 537.037184: prev_comm=swapper prev_pid=0 prev_prio=120... ffffffff81030350 perf_trace_sched_switch ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81382ac5 schedule ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8100134a cpu_idle ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81370b39 rest_init ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81696c23 start_kernel ([kernel.kallsyms].init.text) ffffffff816962af x86_64_start_reservations ([kernel.kallsyms].init.text) ffffffff816963b9 x86_64_start_kernel ([kernel.kallsyms].init.text) sshd 1675/1675 537.037309: prev_comm=sshd prev_pid=1675 prev_prio=120... ffffffff81030350 perf_trace_sched_switch ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81382ac5 schedule ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff813837aa schedule_hrtimeout_range_clock ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81383886 schedule_hrtimeout_range ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8110c4f9 poll_schedule_timeout ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8110cd20 do_select ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8110ced8 core_sys_select ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff8110d00d sys_select ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81002bc2 system_call ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7f1647e56e93 __GI_select (/lib64/libc-2.12.90.so) netstat 1692/1692 537.038664: prev_comm=netstat prev_pid=1692 prev_prio=... ffffffff81030350 perf_trace_sched_switch ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81382ac5 schedule ([kernel.kallsyms]) ffffffff81002c3a sysret_careful ([kernel.kallsyms]) 7f7a6cd1b210 __GI___libc_read (/lib64/libc-2.12.90.so) Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> LKML-Reference: <1299734608-5223-6-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-script.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
index b73cf589c10..c64118a4de4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt
@@ -115,7 +115,21 @@ OPTIONS
-f::
--fields
Comma separated list of fields to print. Options are:
- comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace
+ comm, tid, pid, time, cpu, event, trace, sym
+
+-k::
+--vmlinux=<file>::
+ vmlinux pathname
+
+--kallsyms=<file>::
+ kallsyms pathname
+
+--symfs=<directory>::
+ Look for files with symbols relative to this directory.
+
+-G::
+--hide-call-graph::
+ When printing symbols do not display call chain.
SEE ALSO
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