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authorMaciek Borzecki <maciek.borzecki@gmail.com>2012-09-04 12:32:30 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-09-06 00:41:55 +0200
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parentperf tools: Replace mempcpy with memcpy (diff)
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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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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-annotate.txt
index c89f9e1453f7..c8ffd9fd5c6a 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 495210a612c4..f4d91bebd59d 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]