perf tools: Support --prefix/--prefix-strip
The objdump utility has useful --prefix / --prefix-strip options to
allow changing source code file names hardcoded into executables' debug
info. Add options to 'perf report', 'perf top' and 'perf annotate',
which are then passed to objdump.
$ mkdir foo
$ echo 'main() { for (;;); }' > foo/foo.c
$ gcc -g foo/foo.c
foo/foo.c:1:1: warning: return type defaults to ‘int’ [-Wimplicit-int]
1 | main() { for (;;); }
| ^~~~
$ perf record ./a.out
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.230 MB perf.data (5721 samples) ]
$ mv foo bar
$ perf annotate
<does not show source code>
$ perf annotate --prefix=/home/ak/lsrc/git/bar --prefix-strip=5
<does show source code>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
LPU-Reference: 20200107210444.214071-1-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
index 5596129..324b6b5 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-top.txt
@@ -158,6 +158,12 @@
-M::
--disassembler-style=:: Set disassembler style for objdump.
+--prefix=PREFIX::
+--prefix-strip=N::
+ Remove first N entries from source file path names in executables
+ and add PREFIX. This allows to display source code compiled on systems
+ with different file system layout.
+
--source::
Interleave source code with assembly code. Enabled by default,
disable with --no-source.