perf report: Add --no-demangle option

It's sometimes useful to see undemangled raw symbol name for example
other tools using the perf output to do manipulation of binaries.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55571
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1364203098-17741-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

5 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 02284a0067f0..71f15510ca0b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -206,6 +206,10 @@ OPTIONS
 --group::
         Show event group information together.
 
+--demangle::
+        Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
+        disable with --no-demangle.
+
 SEE ALSO
 --------
 linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-annotate[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
index 296bd219977a..b5ea26cc7eb1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-report.c
@@ -692,6 +692,8 @@ int cmd_report(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
                     "use branch records for histogram filling", parse_branch_mode),
         OPT_STRING(0, "objdump", &objdump_path, "path",
                    "objdump binary to use for disassembly and annotations"),
+        OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "demangle", &symbol_conf.demangle,
+                    "Disable symbol demangling"),
         OPT_END()
         };
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
index 54efcb5659ac..4b12bf850325 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol-elf.c
@@ -806,9 +806,12 @@ int dso__load_sym(struct dso *dso, struct map *map,
                  * DWARF DW_compile_unit has this, but we don't always have access
                  * to it...
                  */
-                demangled = bfd_demangle(NULL, elf_name, DMGL_PARAMS | DMGL_ANSI);
-                if (demangled != NULL)
-                        elf_name = demangled;
+                if (symbol_conf.demangle) {
+                        demangled = bfd_demangle(NULL, elf_name,
+                                                 DMGL_PARAMS | DMGL_ANSI);
+                        if (demangled != NULL)
+                                elf_name = demangled;
+                }
 new_symbol:
                 f = symbol__new(sym.st_value, sym.st_size,
                                 GELF_ST_BIND(sym.st_info), elf_name);
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
index e6432d85b43d..8cf3b5426a9a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ struct symbol_conf symbol_conf = {
         .use_modules      = true,
         .try_vmlinux_path = true,
         .annotate_src     = true,
+        .demangle         = true,
         .symfs            = "",
 };
 
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
index b62ca37c4b77..d7654c23861a 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h
@@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ struct symbol_conf {
                         kptr_restrict,
                         annotate_asm_raw,
                         annotate_src,
-                        event_group;
+                        event_group,
+                        demangle;
         const char      *vmlinux_name,
                         *kallsyms_name,
                         *source_prefix,