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authorMaciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki@gmail.com>2012-09-04 10:32:30 (GMT)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-09-05 22:41:55 (GMT)
commit7a4ec938857cf534270b23545495300fbac7f5de (patch)
tree3619137d2a7a6ce0209240cf9c99e7a3587e58c2 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent60ff92f515a4efb36931f1b5b042332016e0f123 (diff)
downloadlinux-7a4ec938857cf534270b23545495300fbac7f5de.tar.xz
perf tools: Allow user to indicate path to objdump in command line
When analyzing perf data from hosts of other architecture than one of the local host it's useful to call objdump that is part of a toolchain for that architecture. Instead of calling regular objdump, call one that user specified in command line. Signed-off-by: Maciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1346754750.16299.3.camel@localhost.localdomain Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt3
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt3
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
index c89f9e1..c8ffd9f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ OPTIONS
-M::
--disassembler-style=:: Set disassembler style for objdump.
+--objdump=<path>::
+ Path to objdump binary.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-record[1], linkperf:perf-report[1]
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
index 495210a..f4d91be 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-report.txt
@@ -168,6 +168,9 @@ OPTIONS
branch stacks and it will automatically switch to the branch view mode,
unless --no-branch-stack is used.
+--objdump=<path>::
+ Path to objdump binary.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-stat[1], linkperf:perf-annotate[1]