perf docs: Add documentation for --force-btf option
The --force-btf option is intended for debugging purposes and is currently undocumented. Add documentation for it. Committer notes: We need a follow up patch expanding on what can be done via BTF and what isn't possible and thus needs further work to convert kernel C source code into tables that can then be associated with syscall integer args and struct members, as discussed in: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241215190712.787847-3-howardchu95@gmail.com/T/#mcfbba653200775c59c730705229a49b34a153db7 Signed-off-by: Howard Chu <howardchu95@gmail.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241215190712.787847-3-howardchu95@gmail.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241215190712.787847-3-howardchu95@gmail.com/T/#mcfbba653200775c59c730705229a49b34a153db7 Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>pull/964/merge
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printing using the existing 'perf trace' syscall arg beautifiers to map integer
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arguments to strings (pid to comm, syscall id to syscall name, etc).
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Use btf_dump to pretty print syscall argument data, instead of using hand-crafted pretty
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printers. This option is intended for testing BTF integration in perf trace. btf_dump-based
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pretty-printing serves as a fallback to hand-crafted pretty printers, as the latter can
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better pretty-print integer flags and struct pointers.
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