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| author | Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> | 2016-07-12 19:05:46 +0900 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2016-07-13 23:09:09 -0300 |
| commit | 7e9fca51fbf8430e27fb6b29299eda575e3f00cf (patch) | |
| tree | cf8e5bdaef77a195c8057ba19f0d28802d7f4e40 /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | a598180aa1279bac4d24dfc85cd2d78553c4210d (diff) | |
| download | linux-7e9fca51fbf8430e27fb6b29299eda575e3f00cf.tar.gz | |
perf probe: Support a special SDT probe format
Support a special SDT probe format which can omit the '%' prefix only if
the SDT group name starts with "sdt_". So, for example both of
"%sdt_libc:setjump" and "sdt_libc:setjump" are acceptable for perf probe
--add.
E.g. without this:
# perf probe -a sdt_libc:setjmp
Semantic error :There is non-digit char in line number.
...
With this:
# perf probe -a sdt_libc:setjmp
Added new event:
sdt_libc:setjmp (on %setjmp in /usr/lib64/libc-2.20.so)
You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e sdt_libc:setjmp -aR sleep 1
Suggested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146831794674.17065.13359473252168740430.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt index 39e387042098..736da44596e4 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt @@ -152,7 +152,9 @@ Probe points are defined by following syntax. [[GROUP:]EVENT=]SRC;PTN [ARG ...] 4) Pre-defined SDT events or cached event with name - %[PROVIDER:]SDTEVENT + %[sdt_PROVIDER:]SDTEVENT + or, + sdt_PROVIDER:SDTEVENT 'EVENT' specifies the name of new event, if omitted, it will be set the name of the probed function. You can also specify a group name by 'GROUP', if omitted, set 'probe' is used for kprobe and 'probe_<bin>' is used for uprobe. Note that using existing group name can conflict with other events. Especially, using the group name reserved for kernel modules can hide embedded events in the |