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authorChangbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>2020-09-04 18:23:57 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2020-09-04 22:11:16 +0300
commit2ae05fe0a9dfe204a6c83bbe6bd1312b3bb3d301 (patch)
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perf: ftrace: Add filter support for option -F/--funcs
Same as 'perf probe -F', this patch adds filter support for the ftrace subcommand option '-F, --funcs <[FILTER]>'. Here is an example that only lists functions which start with 'vfs_': $ sudo perf ftrace -F vfs_* vfs_fadvise vfs_fallocate vfs_truncate vfs_open vfs_setpos vfs_llseek vfs_readf vfs_writef ... Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200904152357.6053-1-changbin.du@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt
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--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@ OPTIONS
-F::
--funcs::
- List all available functions to trace.
+ List available functions to trace. It accepts a pattern to
+ only list interested functions.
-p::
--pid=::