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perf inject: Add --kallsyms parameter

Let perf inject take --kallsyms parameter the same as perf script and
perf report do.

That is needed for decoding Instruction Trace data using a copy of
/proc/kcore for the kernel object because the kallsyms path is used to
locate that copy.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406035081-14301-30-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Adrian Hunter 11 years ago
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      tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt
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      tools/perf/builtin-inject.c

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tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt

@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ OPTIONS
 	tasks slept. sched_switch contains a callchain where a task slept and
 	sched_stat contains a timeslice how long a task slept.
 
+--kallsyms=<file>::
+	kallsyms pathname
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1], linkperf:perf-archive[1]

+ 2 - 0
tools/perf/builtin-inject.c

@@ -439,6 +439,8 @@ int cmd_inject(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 			    "where and how long tasks slept"),
 		OPT_INCR('v', "verbose", &verbose,
 			 "be more verbose (show build ids, etc)"),
+		OPT_STRING(0, "kallsyms", &symbol_conf.kallsyms_name, "file",
+			   "kallsyms pathname"),
 		OPT_END()
 	};
 	const char * const inject_usage[] = {