perf record: Add support for using symbols in address filters

Symbols come from either the DSO or /proc/kallsyms for the kernel.
Details of the functionality can be found in Documentation/perf-record.txt.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1474641528-18776-8-git-send-email-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
index 962adcfc43a5..67d2a9003294 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-record.c
@@ -1581,6 +1581,18 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
         if (err)
                 goto out;
 
+        /*
+         * Allow aliases to facilitate the lookup of symbols for address
+         * filters. Refer to auxtrace_parse_filters().
+         */
+        symbol_conf.allow_aliases = true;
+
+        symbol__init(NULL);
+
+        err = auxtrace_parse_filters(rec->evlist);
+        if (err)
+                goto out;
+
         if (dry_run)
                 goto out;
 
@@ -1594,8 +1606,6 @@ int cmd_record(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
 
         err = -ENOMEM;
 
-        symbol__init(NULL);
-
         if (symbol_conf.kptr_restrict)
                 pr_warning(
 "WARNING: Kernel address maps (/proc/{kallsyms,modules}) are restricted,\n"