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authorJames Clark <james.clark@arm.com>2021-10-18 14:48:43 +0100
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2021-11-07 12:27:38 -0300
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perf inject: Add vmlinux and ignore-vmlinux arguments
Other perf tools allow specifying the path to vmlinux. 'perf inject' didn't have this argument which made some auxtrace workflows difficult. Also add --ignore-vmlinux for consistency with other tools. Suggested-by: Denis Nikitin <denik@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com> Tested-by: Denis Nikitin <denik@chromium.org> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211018134844.2627174-4-james.clark@arm.com [ Added the perf-inject man page entries for these options, as noted by Denis ] Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt
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+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-inject.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,13 @@ OPTIONS
tasks slept. sched_switch contains a callchain where a task slept and
sched_stat contains a timeslice how long a task slept.
+-k::
+--vmlinux=<file>::
+ vmlinux pathname
+
+--ignore-vmlinux::
+ Ignore vmlinux files.
+
--kallsyms=<file>::
kallsyms pathname