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| author | Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-04-16 16:09:25 +0400 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2012-05-11 20:58:53 +0400 |
| commit | 73eff9f56e15598c8399c0b86899fd889b97f085 (patch) | |
| tree | 66af5bbb7d09dac1ccbf90737f16ffb23f334e2c /tools/perf/Documentation | |
| parent | 225466f1c2d816c33b4341008f45dfdc83a9f0cb (diff) | |
| download | linux-73eff9f56e15598c8399c0b86899fd889b97f085.tar.xz | |
perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent
Options -m and -x explicitly allow tracing of modules / user space
binaries. In absense of these options, check if the first argument can
be used as a target.
perf probe /bin/zsh zfree is equivalent to perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree.
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120416120925.30661.40409.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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 | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt index fb673bef4798..b715cb71592b 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt @@ -104,6 +104,10 @@ OPTIONS Specify path to the executable or shared library file for user space tracing. Can also be used with --funcs option. +In absence of -m/-x options, perf probe checks if the first argument after +the options is an absolute path name. If its an absolute path, perf probe +uses it as a target module/target user space binary to probe. + PROBE SYNTAX ------------ Probe points are defined by following syntax. @@ -190,11 +194,11 @@ Delete all probes on schedule(). Add probes at zfree() function on /bin/zsh - ./perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree + ./perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree or ./perf probe /bin/zsh zfree Add probes at malloc() function on libc - ./perf probe -x /lib/libc.so.6 malloc + ./perf probe -x /lib/libc.so.6 malloc or ./perf probe /lib/libc.so.6 malloc SEE ALSO -------- |