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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
index 9848e270b92c..7da2c46ea38f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-top.c
@@ -1142,6 +1142,8 @@ int cmd_top(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
                     "Interleave source code with assembly code (default)"),
         OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "asm-raw", &symbol_conf.annotate_asm_raw,
                     "Display raw encoding of assembly instructions (default)"),
+        OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "demangle-kernel", &symbol_conf.demangle_kernel,
+                    "Enable kernel symbol demangling"),
         OPT_STRING(0, "objdump", &objdump_path, "path",
                     "objdump binary to use for disassembly and annotations"),
         OPT_STRING('M', "disassembler-style", &disassembler_style, "disassembler style",