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authorAvi Kivity <avi@cloudius-systems.com>2014-09-13 08:15:05 +0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2014-09-18 00:08:09 +0400
commit763122ade725592402190f5ff3b8d2edf42b87e8 (patch)
tree1ce5493cc830c0cd23c221665e7c143e668e43ac /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
parent29a3ce31c38c8f73f4e076b7ffc0876b4f5dd6c3 (diff)
downloadlinux-763122ade725592402190f5ff3b8d2edf42b87e8.tar.xz
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>
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@@ -276,6 +276,9 @@ OPTIONS
Demangle symbol names to human readable form. It's enabled by default,
disable with --no-demangle.
+--demangle-kernel::
+ Demangle kernel symbol names to human readable form (for C++ kernels).
+
--mem-mode::
Use the data addresses of samples in addition to instruction addresses
to build the histograms. To generate meaningful output, the perf.data