Perf annotate supports --symbol but it's impossible to filter
a C++ symbol. With --no-demangle one can filter easily by
mangled function name.
Signed-off-by: Martin Liška <mli...@suse.cz>
---
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt | 7 +++++++
tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c | 4 ++++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
index 1b5042f134a8..80c1be5d566c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
@@ -124,6 +124,13 @@ OPTIONS
--group::
Show event group information together
+--demangle::
+ 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).
+
--percent-type::
Set annotation percent type from following choices:
global-period, local-period, global-hits, local-hits
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
index 0f3a196e5d6e..021d974c978e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-annotate.c
@@ -538,6 +538,10 @@ int cmd_annotate(int argc, const char **argv)
"Strip first N entries of source file path name in programs
(with --prefix)"),
OPT_STRING(0, "objdump", &annotate.opts.objdump_path, "path",
"objdump binary to use for disassembly and annotations"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "demangle", &symbol_conf.demangle,
+ "Enable symbol demangling"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "demangle-kernel", &symbol_conf.demangle_kernel,
+ "Enable kernel symbol demangling"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "group", &symbol_conf.event_group,
"Show event group information together"),
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "show-total-period", &symbol_conf.show_total_period,
--
2.30.2
