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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2010-10-21 14:13:23 +0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-10-21 21:59:06 +0400
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downloadlinux-cf6eb489e5c04c8f8d5fd7bf90b8346c987688bc.tar.xz
perf probe: Show accessible local variables
Add -V (--vars) option for listing accessible local variables at given probe point. This will help finding which local variables are available for event arguments. e.g.) # perf probe -V call_timer_fn:23 Available variables at call_timer_fn:23 @<run_timer_softirq+345> function_type* fn int preempt_count long unsigned int data struct list_head work_list struct list_head* head struct timer_list* timer struct tvec_base* base Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20101021101323.3542.40282.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index 27d52dae5a43..72f5d9e21432 100644
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+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ or
'perf probe' --list
or
'perf probe' --line='FUNC[:RLN[+NUM|:RLN2]]|SRC:ALN[+NUM|:ALN2]'
+or
+'perf probe' --vars='PROBEPOINT'
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -57,6 +59,11 @@ OPTIONS
Show source code lines which can be probed. This needs an argument
which specifies a range of the source code. (see LINE SYNTAX for detail)
+-V::
+--vars=::
+ Show available local variables at given probe point. The argument
+ syntax is same as PROBE SYNTAX, but NO ARGs.
+
-f::
--force::
Forcibly add events with existing name.