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authorAvi Kivity <avi@cloudius-systems.com>2014-09-13 07:15:05 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2014-09-17 17:08:09 -0300
commit763122ade725592402190f5ff3b8d2edf42b87e8 (patch)
tree1ce5493cc830c0cd23c221665e7c143e668e43ac /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
parent29a3ce31c38c8f73f4e076b7ffc0876b4f5dd6c3 (diff)
perf tools: Disable kernel symbol demangling by default
Some Linux symbols (for example __vt_event_wait) are interpreted by the demangler as C++ mangled names, which of course they aren't. Disable kernel symbol demangling by default to avoid this, and allow enabling it with a new option --demangle-kernel for those who wish it. Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@cloudius-systems.com> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410581705-26968-1-git-send-email-avi@cloudius-systems.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ OPTIONS
Specify path to the executable or shared library file for user
space tracing. Can also be used with --funcs option.
+--demangle-kernel::
+ Demangle kernel symbols.
+
In absence of -m/-x options, perf probe checks if the first argument after
the options is an absolute path name. If its an absolute path, perf probe
uses it as a target module/target user space binary to probe.