From fc2be6968e99b5314f20e938a547d44dcb1c40eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Willy Tarreau Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:32:59 +0200 Subject: perf symbols: Add new option --ignore-vmlinux for perf top Running "perf top" on a machine with possibly invalid or non-matching vmlinux at the various places results in no symbol resolving despite /proc/kallsyms being present and valid. Add a new option --ignore-vmlinux to explicitly indicate that we do not want to use these kernels and just use what we have (kallsyms). Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau Cc: Ingo Molnar Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130914083259.GA3418@1wt.eu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/perf/util/symbol.c') diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c index cd1dcc4..48c3879 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c @@ -1215,7 +1215,7 @@ static int dso__load_kernel_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, goto do_kallsyms; } - if (symbol_conf.vmlinux_name != NULL) { + if (!symbol_conf.ignore_vmlinux && symbol_conf.vmlinux_name != NULL) { err = dso__load_vmlinux(dso, map, symbol_conf.vmlinux_name, filter); if (err > 0) { @@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ static int dso__load_kernel_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map, return err; } - if (vmlinux_path != NULL) { + if (!symbol_conf.ignore_vmlinux && vmlinux_path != NULL) { err = dso__load_vmlinux_path(dso, map, filter); if (err > 0) return err; -- cgit v1.1