From: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bango...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> When filename contains special chars, perf annotate fails with an error:
$ perf annotate --vmlinux ./vmlinux\(test\) --stdio native_safe_halt sh: -c: line 0: syntax error near unexpected token `(' sh: -c: line 0: `objdump --start-address=0xffffffff8184e840 --stop-address=0xffffffff8184e848 -l -d --no-show-raw -S -C ./vmlinux(test) 2>/dev/null|grep -v ./vmlinux(test):|expand' Fix it by surrounding filename in double quotes. Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bango...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Adam Stylinski <adam.stylin...@etegent.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shish...@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntrae...@de.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.tae...@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170505101417.2117-1-ravi.bango...@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c index 683f8340460c..07d5608a675f 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/annotate.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/annotate.c @@ -1429,7 +1429,7 @@ int symbol__disassemble(struct symbol *sym, struct map *map, const char *arch_na snprintf(command, sizeof(command), "%s %s%s --start-address=0x%016" PRIx64 " --stop-address=0x%016" PRIx64 - " -l -d %s %s -C %s 2>/dev/null|grep -v %s:|expand", + " -l -d %s %s -C \"%s\" 2>/dev/null|grep -v \"%s:\"|expand", objdump_path ? objdump_path : "objdump", disassembler_style ? "-M " : "", disassembler_style ? disassembler_style : "", -- 2.9.4