perf probe: Add kernel source path option

The probe plugin requires access to the source code for some operations.  The
source code must be in the exact same location as specified by the DWARF tags,
but sometimes the location is an absolute path that cannot be replicated by a
normal user. This change adds the -s|--source option to allow the user to
specify the root of the kernel source tree.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1276543590-10486-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index 94a258c96a44..ea531d9d975c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -31,6 +31,10 @@ OPTIONS
 --vmlinux=PATH::
         Specify vmlinux path which has debuginfo (Dwarf binary).
 
+-s::
+--source=PATH::
+        Specify path to kernel source.
+
 -v::
 --verbose::
         Be more verbose (show parsed arguments, etc).