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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-12-15 10:32:18 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-12-15 20:22:03 +0100
commitaf663d75a64d2cc3f18bdb8a29ff4650b9417c16 (patch)
treefbbad1152eb42f561cc8b186b8bb38aabc1e1d94 /tools/perf/Documentation
parentbbbb521bc61008b280c72ad6e29a8a7558d3acfa (diff)
perf probe: Support event name for --add option
Support event name syntax for --add option. This allows users to specify event name for each new event. The --add syntax is: perf probe --add '[EVENT=]SRC:LINE ARGS' or perf probe --add '[EVENT=]FUNC[+OFFS|%return|:RLN][@SRC] ARGS' e.g. ./perf probe --add myprobe1=schedule Note: currently group name is not supported yet, because it can cause name-space confliction with other tracepoint/ hw-breakpoint events. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20091215153218.17436.84675.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt3
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index 8fa6bf99fcb5..250e391b4bc8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -49,8 +49,9 @@ PROBE SYNTAX
------------
Probe points are defined by following syntax.
- "FUNC[+OFFS|:RLN|%return][@SRC]|SRC:ALN [ARG ...]"
+ "[EVENT=]FUNC[+OFFS|:RLN|%return][@SRC]|SRC:ALN [ARG ...]"
+'EVENT' specifies the name of new event, if omitted, it will be set the name of the probed function. Currently, event group name is set as 'probe'.
'FUNC' specifies a probed function name, and it may have one of the following options; '+OFFS' is the offset from function entry address in bytes, 'RLN' is the relative-line number from function entry line, and '%return' means that it probes function return. In addition, 'SRC' specifies a source file which has that function.
It is also possible to specify a probe point by the source line number by using 'SRC:ALN' syntax, where 'SRC' is the source file path and 'ALN' is the line number.
'ARG' specifies the arguments of this probe point. You can use the name of local variable, or kprobe-tracer argument format (e.g. $retval, %ax, etc).