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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-10-08 17:17:38 -0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-10-12 23:31:52 +0200
commit4ea42b181434bfc6a0a18d32214130a242d489bf (patch)
tree2c467d795d90440e0293951087c41caca8397584 /tools/perf/perf.c
parente93f4d8539d5e9dd59f4af9d8ef4e9b62cfa1f81 (diff)
perf: Add perf probe subcommand, a kprobe-event setup helper
Add perf probe subcommand that implements a kprobe-event setup helper to the perf command. This allows user to define kprobe events using C expressions (C line numbers, C function names, and C local variables). Usage ----- perf probe [<options>] -P 'PROBEDEF' [-P 'PROBEDEF' ...] -k, --vmlinux <file> vmlinux/module pathname -P, --probe <p|r:[GRP/]NAME FUNC[+OFFS][@SRC]|@SRC:LINE [ARG ...]> probe point definition, where p: kprobe probe r: kretprobe probe GRP: Group name (optional) NAME: Event name FUNC: Function name OFFS: Offset from function entry (in byte) SRC: Source code path LINE: Line number ARG: Probe argument (local variable name or kprobe-tracer argument format is supported.) Changes in v4: - Add _GNU_SOURCE macro for strndup(). Changes in v3: - Remove -r option because perf always be used for online kernel. - Check malloc/calloc results. Changes in v2: - Check synthesized string length. - Rename perf kprobe to perf probe. - Use spaces for separator and update usage comment. - Check error paths in parse_probepoint(). - Check optimized-out variables. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <20091008211737.29299.14784.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/perf.c b/tools/perf/perf.c
index 19fc7feb9d59..f598120c0097 100644
--- a/tools/perf/perf.c
+++ b/tools/perf/perf.c
@@ -295,6 +295,9 @@ static void handle_internal_command(int argc, const char **argv)
{ "version", cmd_version, 0 },
{ "trace", cmd_trace, 0 },
{ "sched", cmd_sched, 0 },
+#ifdef SUPPORT_DWARF
+ { "probe", cmd_probe, 0 },
+#endif
};
unsigned int i;
static const char ext[] = STRIP_EXTENSION;