perf report: Allow user to specify path to kallsyms file

This is useful for analyzing a perf data file on a different system than
the one data was collected on and still include symbols from loaded
kernel modules in the output.

Commiter note: Updated the man page accordingly.

LKML-Reference: <1291775986-16475-1-git-send-email-daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <daahern@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index 904519fba434..b6a2a899aa8f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -443,6 +443,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
                     "dump raw trace in ASCII"),
         OPT_STRING('k', "vmlinux", &symbol_conf.vmlinux_name,
                    "file", "vmlinux pathname"),
+        OPT_STRING(0, "kallsyms", &symbol_conf.kallsyms_name,
+                   "file", "kallsyms pathname"),
         OPT_BOOLEAN('f', "force", &force, "don't complain, do it"),
         OPT_BOOLEAN('m', "modules", &symbol_conf.use_modules,
                     "load module symbols - WARNING: use only with -k and LIVE kernel"),