History log of /linux-master/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
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# 3524f89e 15-Jan-2023 qinyu <qinyu32@huawei.com>

perf docs: Fix a typo in 'perf probe' man page: l20th -> 120th

Fix a minor typo in 'perf probe' doc.

Fixes: 631c9def804b2c92 ("perf probe: Support --line option to show probable source-code lines")
Signed-off-by: qinyu <qinyu32@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Feilong Lin <linfeilong@huawei.com>
Cc: Hewenliang <hewenliang4@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230116012143.432435-1-qinyu32@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# a527c2c1 18-Oct-2022 James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>

perf tools: Make quiet mode consistent between tools

Use the global quiet variable everywhere so that all tools hide warnings
in quiet mode and update the documentation to reflect this.

'perf probe' claimed that errors are not printed in quiet mode but I
don't see this so remove it from the docs.

Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221018094137.783081-3-james.clark@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# fe4f3eb1 26-May-2021 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Add permission and sysctl notice to man page

Add a section to notify the permission and sysctl setting for perf
probe. And fix some indentations.

Reported-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/162204068898.388434.16842705842611255787.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 1e032f7c 14-May-2019 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf-probe: Add user memory access attribute support

Add user memory access attribute for kprobe event arguments.
If a given 'local variable' is in user-space, User can
specify memory access method by '@user' suffix. This is
not only for string but also for data structure.

If we access a field of data structure in user memory from
kernel on some arch, it will fail. e.g.

perf probe -a "sched_setscheduler param->sched_priority"

This will fail to access the "param->sched_priority" because
the param is __user pointer. Instead, we can now specify
@user suffix for such argument.

perf probe -a "sched_setscheduler param->sched_priority@user"

Note that kernel memory access with "@user" must always fail
on any arch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789874562.26965.10836126971405890891.stgit@devnote2

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# c588d158 12-Dec-2017 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Support escaped character in parser

Support the special characters escaped by '\' in parser. This allows
user to specify versions directly like below.

=====
# ./perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.25.so malloc_get_state\\@GLIBC_2.2.5
Added new event:
probe_libc:malloc_get_state (on malloc_get_state@GLIBC_2.2.5 in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe_libc:malloc_get_state -aR sleep 1

=====

Or, you can use separators in source filename, e.g.

=====
# ./perf probe -x /opt/test/a.out foo+bar.c:3
Semantic error :There is non-digit character in offset.
Error: Command Parse Error.
=====

Usually "+" in source file cause parser error, but

=====
# ./perf probe -x /opt/test/a.out foo\\+bar.c:4
Added new event:
probe_a:main (on @foo+bar.c:4 in /opt/test/a.out)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe_a:main -aR sleep 1
=====

escaped "\+" allows you to specify that.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: bhargavb <bhargavaramudu@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151309111236.18107.5634753157435343410.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# e63c625a 08-Dec-2017 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Add __return suffix for return events

Add __return suffix for function return events automatically. Without
this, user have to give --force option and will see the number suffix
for each event like "function_1", which is not easy to recognize.
Instead, this adds __return suffix to it automatically. E.g.

=====
# ./perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.25.so 'malloc*%return'
Added new events:
probe_libc:malloc_printerr__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)
probe_libc:malloc_consolidate__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)
probe_libc:malloc_check__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)
probe_libc:malloc_hook_ini__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)
probe_libc:malloc__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)
probe_libc:malloc_trim__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)
probe_libc:malloc_usable_size__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)
probe_libc:malloc_stats__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)
probe_libc:malloc_info__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)
probe_libc:mallochook__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)
probe_libc:malloc_get_state__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)
probe_libc:malloc_set_state__return (on malloc*%return in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe_libc:malloc_set_state__return -aR sleep 1

=====

Reported-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Clarke <pc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: bhargavb <bhargavaramudu@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/151275046418.24652.6696011972866498489.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# f045b8c4 05-Jul-2017 Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>

perf buildid-cache: Support binary objects from other namespaces

Teach buildid-cache how to add, remove, and update binary objects from
other mount namespaces. Allow probe events tracing binaries in
different namespaces to add their objects to the probe and build-id
caches too. As a handy side effect, this also lets us access SDT probes
in binaries from alternate mount namespaces.

Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>
Tested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499305693-1599-5-git-send-email-kjlx@templeofstupid.com
[ Add util/namespaces.c to tools/perf/util/python-ext-sources, to fix the python binding 'perf test' ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 544abd44 05-Jul-2017 Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>

perf probe: Allow placing uprobes in alternate namespaces.

Teaches perf how to place a uprobe on a file that's in a different mount
namespace. The user must add the probe using the --target-ns argument
to perf probe. Once it has been placed, it may be recorded against
without further namespace-specific commands.

Signed-off-by: Krister Johansen <kjlx@templeofstupid.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ PPC build fixed by Ravi: ]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1500287542-6219-1-git-send-email-ravi.bangoria@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Thomas-Mich Richter <tmricht@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ Fix !HAVE_DWARF_SUPPORT build ]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1499305693-1599-4-git-send-email-kjlx@templeofstupid.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# d89269a8 07-May-2017 SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>

perf probe: Fix examples section of documentation

An example in perf-probe documentation for pattern of function name
based probe addition is not providing example command for that case.

This commit fixes the example to give appropriate example command.

Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Taeung Song <treeze.taeung@gmail.com>
Fixes: ee391de876ae ("perf probe: Update perf probe document")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170507103642.30560-1-sj38.park@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 428aff82 25-Aug-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Ignore vmlinux buildid if offline kernel is given

Ignore the buildid of running kernel when both of --definition and
--vmlinux is given because that kernel should be off-line.

This also skips post-processing of kprobe event for relocating symbol
and checking blacklist, because it can not be done on off-line kernel.

E.g. without this fix perf shows an error as below
----
$ perf probe --vmlinux=./vmlinux-arm --definition do_sys_open
./vmlinux-arm with build id 7a1f76dd56e9c4da707cd3d6333f50748141434b not found, continuing without symbols
Failed to find symbol do_sys_open in kernel
Error: Failed to add events.
----
with this fix, we can get the definition
----
$ perf probe --vmlinux=./vmlinux-arm --definition do_sys_open
p:probe/do_sys_open do_sys_open+0
----

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147214228193.23638.12581984840822162131.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 1c20b1d1 25-Aug-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Show trace event definition

Add --definition/-D option for showing the trace-event definition in
stdout. This can be useful in debugging or combined with a shell script.

e.g.
----
# perf probe --definition 'do_sys_open $params'
p:probe/do_sys_open _text+2261728 dfd=%di:s32 filename=%si:u64 flags=%dx:s32 mode=%cx:u16
----

Suggested-and-Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147214226712.23638.2240534040014013658.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# bdca79c2 18-Aug-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

ftrace: kprobe: uprobe: Show u8/u16/u32/u64 types in decimal

Change kprobe/uprobe-tracer to show the arguments type-casted
with u8/u16/u32/u64 in decimal digits instead of hexadecimal.

To minimize compatibility issue, the arguments without type
casting are typed by x64 (or x32 for 32bit arch) by default.

Note: all arguments set by old perf probe without types are
shown in decimal by default.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151076135.12957.14684546093034343894.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 92543787 18-Aug-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Support hexadecimal casting

Support hexadecimal unsigned integer casting by 'x'. This allows user
to explicitly specify the output format of the probe arguments as
hexadecimal.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151072679.12957.4458656416765710753.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 17ce3dc7 18-Aug-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

ftrace: kprobe: uprobe: Add x8/x16/x32/x64 for hexadecimal types

Add x8/x16/x32/x64 for hexadecimal type casting to kprobe/uprobe event
tracer.

These type casts can be used for integer arguments for explicitly
showing them in hexadecimal digits in formatted text.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/147151067029.12957.11591314629326414783.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 19f00b01 08-Aug-2016 Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com>

perf probe: Support signedness casting

The 'perf probe' tool detects a variable's type and use the detected
type to add a new probe. Then, kprobes prints its variable in
hexadecimal format if the variable is unsigned and prints in decimal if
it is signed.

We sometimes want to see unsigned variable in decimal format (i.e.
sector_t or size_t). In that case, we need to investigate the variable's
size manually to specify just signedness.

This patch add signedness casting support. By specifying "s" or "u" as a
type, perf-probe will investigate variable size as usual and use the
specified signedness.

E.g. without this:

$ perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector'
Added new event:
probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector)
You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1
$ cat trace_pipe|head
dbench-9692 [003] d..1 971.096633: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=0x3a3d00
dbench-9692 [003] d..1 971.096685: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=0x1a3d80
dbench-9692 [003] d..1 971.096687: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=0x3a3d80
...
// need to investigate the variable size
$ perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s64'
Added new event:
probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s64)
You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1

With this:

// just use "s" to cast its signedness
$ perf probe -v -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s'
Added new event:
probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s)
You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1
$ cat trace_pipe|head
dbench-9689 [001] d..1 1212.391237: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=128
dbench-9689 [001] d..1 1212.391252: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=131072
dbench-9697 [006] d..1 1212.398611: submit_bio: (submit_bio+0x0/0x140) bi_sector=30208

This commit also update perf-probe.txt to describe "types". Most parts
are based on existing documentation: Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt

Committer note:

Testing using 'perf trace':

# perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector'
Added new event:
probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1

# trace --no-syscalls --ev probe:submit_bio
0.000 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0xc133c0)
3181.861 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x6cffb8)
3181.881 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x6cffc0)
3184.488 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x6cffc8)
<SNIP>
4717.927 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x4dc7a88)
4717.970 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0x4dc7880)
^C[root@jouet ~]#

Now, using this new feature:

[root@jouet ~]# perf probe -a 'submit_bio bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s'
Added new event:
probe:submit_bio (on submit_bio with bi_sector=bio->bi_iter.bi_sector:s)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe:submit_bio -aR sleep 1

[root@jouet ~]# trace --no-syscalls --ev probe:submit_bio
0.000 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145704)
0.017 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145712)
0.019 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145720)
2.567 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=7145728)
5631.919 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=0)
5631.941 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=8)
5631.945 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=16)
5631.948 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=24)
^C#

With callchains:

# trace --no-syscalls --ev probe:submit_bio/max-stack=10/
0.000 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662544)
submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms])
submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms])
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa8200691 ([kernel.kallsyms])
kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms])
kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms])
0.023 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662552)
submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms])
submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms])
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa8200691 ([kernel.kallsyms])
kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms])
kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms])
0.027 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662560)
submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms])
submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms])
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa8200691 ([kernel.kallsyms])
kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms])
kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms])
2.593 probe:submit_bio:(ffffffffac3aee00) bi_sector=50662568)
submit_bio+0xa8200001 ([kernel.kallsyms])
submit_bh+0xa8200013 ([kernel.kallsyms])
journal_submit_commit_record+0xa82001ac ([kernel.kallsyms])
jbd2_journal_commit_transaction+0xa82012e8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
kjournald2+0xa82000ca ([kernel.kallsyms])
kthread+0xa82000d8 ([kernel.kallsyms])
ret_from_fork+0xa820001f ([kernel.kallsyms])
^C#

Signed-off-by: Naohiro Aota <naohiro.aota@hgst.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1470710408-23515-1-git-send-email-naohiro.aota@hgst.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 7e9fca51 12-Jul-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Support a special SDT probe format

Support a special SDT probe format which can omit the '%' prefix only if
the SDT group name starts with "sdt_". So, for example both of
"%sdt_libc:setjump" and "sdt_libc:setjump" are acceptable for perf probe
--add.

E.g. without this:

# perf probe -a sdt_libc:setjmp
Semantic error :There is non-digit char in line number.
...

With this:

# perf probe -a sdt_libc:setjmp
Added new event:
sdt_libc:setjmp (on %setjmp in /usr/lib64/libc-2.20.so)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e sdt_libc:setjmp -aR sleep 1

Suggested-by: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146831794674.17065.13359473252168740430.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 36a009fe 12-Jul-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Accept %sdt and %cached event name

To improve usability, support %[PROVIDER:]SDTEVENT format to add new
probes on SDT and cached events.

e.g.
----
# perf probe -x /lib/libc-2.17.so %lll_lock_wait_private
Added new event:
sdt_libc:lll_lock_wait_private (on %lll_lock_wait_private in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e sdt_libc:lll_lock_wait_private -aR sleep 1

# perf probe -l | more
sdt_libc:lll_lock_wait_private (on __lll_lock_wait_private+21 in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so)
----

Note that this is not only for SDT events, but also normal
events with event-name.

e.g. define "myevent" on cache (-n doesn't add the real probe)
----
# perf probe -x ./perf --cache -n --add 'myevent=dso__load $params'
----
Reuse the "myevent" from cache as below.
----
# perf probe -x ./perf %myevent
----

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146831788372.17065.3645054540325909346.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 8d993d96 01-Jul-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Add group name support

Allow user to set group name for adding new event. Note that user must
ensure that the group name doesn't conflict with existing group name
carefully.

E.g. Existing group name can conflict with other events. Especially,
using the group name reserved for kernel modules can hide kernel
embedded events when loading modules.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146736024091.27797.9471545190066268995.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 4a0f65c1 01-Jul-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Remove caches when --cache is given

'perf probe --del' removes caches when '--cache' is given. Note that
the delete pattern is not the same as for normal events.

If you cached probes with event name, --del "eventname" works as
expected. However, if you skipped it, the cached probes doesn't have
actual event name. In that case --del "probe-desc" is required (wildcard
is acceptable). For example a cache entry has the probe-desc "vfs_read
$params", you can remove it with --del 'vfs_read*'.

-----
# perf probe --cache --list
/[kernel.kallsyms] (1466a0a250b5d0070c6d0f03c5fed30b237970a1):
vfs_read $params
/usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so (c31ffe7942bfd77b2fca8f9bd5709d387a86d3bc):
getaddrinfo $params

# perf probe --cache --del vfs_read\*
Removed cached event: probe:vfs_read

# perf probe --cache --list
/[kernel.kallsyms] (1466a0a250b5d0070c6d0f03c5fed30b237970a1):
/usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so (c31ffe7942bfd77b2fca8f9bd5709d387a86d3bc):
getaddrinfo $params
-----

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146736021651.27797.10250879847070772920.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 1f3736c9 01-Jul-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Show all cached probes

perf probe --list shows all cached probes when --cache is given. Each
caches are shown with on which binary that probed. E.g.:

-----
# perf probe --cache vfs_read \$params
# perf probe --cache -x /lib64/libc-2.17.so getaddrinfo \$params
# perf probe --cache --list
[kernel.kallsyms] (1466a0a250b5d0070c6d0f03c5fed30b237970a1):
vfs_read $params
/usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so (c31ffe7942bfd77b2fca8f9bd5709d387a86d3bc):
getaddrinfo $params
-----

Note that $params requires debuginfo.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/146736020674.27797.13488316780383460180.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 2fd457a3 14-Jun-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Add --cache option to cache the probe definitions

Add --cache option to cache the probe definitions. This just saves the
result of the dwarf analysis to probe cache.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160615032840.31330.44412.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 6cfd1f68 07-May-2015 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Add --no-inlines option to avoid searching inline functions

Add --no-inlines(--inlines) option to avoid searching inline functions.

Searching all functions which matches glob pattern can take a long time
and find a lot of inline functions.

With this option perf-probe searches target on the non-inlined
functions.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150508010333.24812.86568.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# f8bffbf1 06-May-2015 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Support $params special probe argument

$params is similar to $vars but matches only function parameters not
local variables.

Thus, this is useful for tracing function parameter changing or tracing
function call with parameters.

Testing it:

# perf probe tcp_sendmsg '$params'
Added new event:
probe:tcp_sendmsg (on tcp_sendmsg with $params)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe:tcp_sendmsg -aR sleep 1

# perf probe -l
probe:tcp_sendmsg (on tcp_sendmsg@acme/git/linux/net/ipv4/tcp.c with iocb sk msg size)
# perf record -a -e probe:*
press some random letters to generate TCP (sshd) traffic...

^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.223 MB perf.data (6 samples) ]

# perf script
sshd 6385 [2] 3.907529: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
sshd 6385 [2] 4.138973: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
sshd 6385 [2] 4.378966: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
sshd 6385 [2] 4.603681: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
sshd 6385 [2] 4.818455: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
sshd 6385 [2] 5.043603: probe:tcp_sendmsg: iocb=0xffff8800ac4cfe70 sk=0xffff88042196c140 msg=0xffff8800ac4cfda8 size=0x24
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/probe/tcp_sendmsg/format
name: tcp_sendmsg
ID: 1927
format:
field:unsigned short common_type; offset:0; size:2; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_flags; offset:2; size:1; signed:0;
field:unsigned char common_preempt_count; offset:3; size:1; signed:0;
field:int common_pid; offset:4; size:4; signed:1;

field:unsigned long __probe_ip; offset:8; size:8; signed:0;
field:u64 iocb; offset:16; size:8; signed:0;
field:u64 sk; offset:24; size:8; signed:0;
field:u64 msg; offset:32; size:8; signed:0;
field:u64 size; offset:40; size:8; signed:0;

print fmt: "(%lx) iocb=0x%Lx sk=0x%Lx msg=0x%Lx size=0x%Lx", REC->__probe_ip, REC->iocb, REC->sk, REC->msg, REC->size
#

Do some system wide tracing of this probe + write syscalls:

# perf trace -e write --ev probe:* --filter-pids 6385
462.612 (0.010 ms): bash/19153 write(fd: 1</dev/pts/1>, buf: 0x7f7556c78000, count: 29 ) = 29
462.701 (0.027 ms): sshd/19152 write(fd: 3<socket:[63117]>, buf: 0x7f78dd12e160, count: 68 ) ...
462.701 ( ): probe:tcp_sendmsg:(ffffffff8163db30) iocb=0xffff8803ebec7e70 sk=0xffff88042196ab80 msg=0xffff8803ebec7da8 size=0x44)
462.710 (0.035 ms): sshd/19152 ... [continued]: write()) = 68
462.787 (0.009 ms): bash/19153 write(fd: 2</dev/pts/1>, buf: 0x7f7556c77000, count: 22 ) = 22
462.865 (0.002 ms): sshd/19152 write(fd: 3<socket:[63117]>, buf: 0x7f78dd12e160, count: 68 ) ...
462.865 ( ): probe:tcp_sendmsg:(ffffffff8163db30) iocb=0xffff8803ebec7e70 sk=0xffff88042196ab80 msg=0xffff8803ebec7da8 size=0x44)
462.873 (0.010 ms): sshd/19152 ... [continued]: write()) = 68

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150506124653.4961.59806.stgit@localhost.localdomain
[ Add some examples to the changelog message showing how to use it ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 9f7811d0 04-May-2015 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Accept filter argument for --funcs

This allows the user to pass the filter pattern directly to the --funcs
option as below:

----
# ./perf probe -F *kmalloc
__kmalloc
devm_kmalloc
mempool_kmalloc
sg_kmalloc
sock_kmalloc
----

We previously needed to use the --filter option for that.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150505022950.23399.22435.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# b6a89643 24-Apr-2015 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Accept filter argument for --list

Currently, perf-probe --list option ignores given event filter.
----
# ./perf probe -l vfs\*
probe:vfs_read (on vfs_read@ksrc/linux-3/fs/read_write.c)
probe_libc:malloc (on __libc_malloc@malloc/malloc.c in /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so)
----

This changes --list option to accept the event filter argument as below.
----
# ./perf probe -l vfs\*
probe:vfs_read (on vfs_read@ksrc/linux-3/fs/read_write.c)
# ./perf probe -l \*libc:\*
probe_libc:malloc (on __libc_malloc@malloc/malloc.c in /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so)
----

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150424094750.23967.53868.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# b3ac032b 23-Apr-2015 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Make --funcs option exclusive

The --funcs option should be given exclusively. This adds
PARSE_OPT_EXCUSIVE flag on --funcs (-F) option.

Without this, 'perf probe --funcs -l' just shows the list of probes.

With this, it shows error message correctly.

This also fixes the help message and the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150423134612.26128.58189.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 8b72805f 30-Jan-2015 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Update man page

Update Documentation/perf-probe.txt to add descriptions of some newer
options.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150130093746.30575.8571.stgit@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 763122ad 12-Sep-2014 Avi Kivity <avi@cloudius-systems.com>

perf tools: Disable kernel symbol demangling by default

Some Linux symbols (for example __vt_event_wait) are interpreted by the
demangler as C++ mangled names, which of course they aren't.

Disable kernel symbol demangling by default to avoid this, and allow
enabling it with a new option --demangle-kernel for those who wish it.

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@cloudius-systems.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1410581705-26968-1-git-send-email-avi@cloudius-systems.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 5b439820 28-Feb-2014 Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>

perf probe: Clarify x86 register naming for perf probe

Clarify how to specify x86 registers in perf probe. I recently ran into
this problem and had to figure it out from the source.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1393596135-4227-3-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 73eff9f5 16-Apr-2012 Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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>


# 225466f1 16-Apr-2012 Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes

- Enhances perf to probe user space executables and libraries.
- Enhances -F/--funcs option of "perf probe" to list possible probe points in
an executable file or library.
- Documents userspace probing support in perf.

[ Probing a function in the executable using function name ]
perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree

[ Probing a library function using function name ]
perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc

[ list probe-able functions in an executable ]
perf probe -F -x /bin/zsh

[ list probe-able functions in an library]
perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.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/20120416120909.30661.99781.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 14a8fd7c 27-Jun-2011 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Support adding probes on offline kernel modules

Support adding probes on offline kernel modules. This enables
perf-probe to trace kernel-module init functions via perf-probe.
If user gives the path of module with -m option, perf-probe
expects the module is offline.
This feature works with --add, --funcs, and --vars.

E.g)
# perf probe -m /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko \
-a "extent_io_init:5 extent_state_cache"
Add new events:
probe:extent_io_init (on extent_io_init:5 with extent_state_cache)
probe:extent_io_init_1 (on extent_io_init:5 with extent_state_cache)

You can now use it on all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe:extent_io_init_1 -aR sleep 1

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110627072751.6528.10230.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# e116dfa1 10-Feb-2011 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Support function@filename syntax for --line

Since "perf probe --add" supports function@filename syntax, --line
option should also support it.

Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
LKML-Reference: <20110210090810.1809.26913.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>


# 3c42258c 20-Jan-2011 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Add filters support for available functions

Add filters support for available function list.

Default filter is "!_*" for filtering out local-purpose symbols.

e.g.:
# perf probe --filter="add*" -F
add_disk
add_disk_randomness
add_input_randomness
add_interrupt_randomness
add_memory
add_page_to_unevictable_list
add_page_wait_queue
...

Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110120141545.25915.85930.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>


# bd09d7b5 20-Jan-2011 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Add variable filter support

Add filters support for available variable list.

Default filter is "!__k???tab_*&!__crc_*" for filtering out
automatically generated symbols.

The format of filter rule is "[!]GLOBPATTERN", so you can use wild
cards. If the filter rule starts with '!', matched variables are filter
out.

e.g.:
# perf probe -V schedule --externs --filter=cpu*
Available variables at schedule
@<schedule+0>
cpumask_var_t cpu_callout_mask
cpumask_var_t cpu_core_map
cpumask_var_t cpu_isolated_map
cpumask_var_t cpu_sibling_map
int cpu_number
long unsigned int* cpu_bit_bitmap
...

Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110120141539.25915.43401.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ committer note: Removed the elf.h include as it was fixed up in e80711c]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# e80711ca 13-Jan-2011 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Add --funcs to show available functions in symtab

Add --funcs to show available functions in symtab.

Originally this feature came from Srikar's uprobes patches
( http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/27/244 )

e.g.
...
__ablkcipher_walk_complete
__absent_pages_in_range
__account_scheduler_latency
__add_pages
__alloc_pages_nodemask
__alloc_percpu
__alloc_reserved_percpu
__alloc_skb
__alloc_workqueue_key
__any_online_cpu
__ata_ehi_push_desc
...

This also supports symbols in module, e.g.

...
cleanup_module
cpuid_maxphyaddr
emulate_clts
emulate_instruction
emulate_int_real
emulate_invlpg
emulator_get_dr
emulator_set_dr
emulator_task_switch
emulator_write_emulated
emulator_write_phys
fx_init
...

Original-patch-from: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20110113124611.22426.10835.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
[ committer note: Add missing elf.h for STB_GLOBAL that broke a RHEL4 build ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 9d95b580 20-Dec-2010 Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>

perf probe: Fix line range description since a single file is allowed

$ perf-probe -L sched.c

is currently allowed but not documented.

Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
LKML-Reference: <1292854685-8230-5-git-send-email-fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 9d5b7f5b 30-Nov-2010 Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>

perf probe: Fix spelling mistake in documentation

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <1291168642-11402-8-git-send-email-shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Shawn Bohrer <shawn.bohrer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 469b9b88 21-Oct-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Add basic module support

Add basic module probe support on perf probe. This introduces "--module
<MODNAME>" option to perf probe for putting probes and showing lines and
variables in the given module.

Currently, this supports only probing on running modules. Supporting off-line
module probing is the next step.

e.g.)
[show lines]
# ./perf probe --module drm -L drm_vblank_info
<drm_vblank_info:0>
0 int drm_vblank_info(struct seq_file *m, void *data)
1 {
struct drm_info_node *node = (struct drm_info_node *) m->private
3 struct drm_device *dev = node->minor->dev;
...
[show vars]
# ./perf probe --module drm -V drm_vblank_info:3
Available variables at drm_vblank_info:3
@<drm_vblank_info+20>
(unknown_type) data
struct drm_info_node* node
struct seq_file* m
[put a probe]
# ./perf probe --module drm drm_vblank_info:3 node m
Add new event:
probe:drm_vblank_info (on drm_vblank_info:3 with node m)

You can now use it on all perf tools, such as:

perf record -e probe:drm_vblank_info -aR sleep 1
[list probes]
# ./perf probe -l
probe:drm_vblank_info (on drm_vblank_info:3@drivers/gpu/drm/drm_info.c with ...

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: <20101021101341.3542.71638.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>


# fb8c5a56 21-Oct-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Show accessible global variables

Add --externs for allowing --vars to show accessible global (externally
defined) variables from a given probe point too.

This will give you a hint which globals can be accessible from the probe point.

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: <20101021101335.3542.31003.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>


# cf6eb489 21-Oct-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

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>


# b2a3c12b 19-May-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Support tracing an entry of array

Add array-entry tracing support to perf probe. This enables to trace an entry
of array which is indexed by constant value, e.g. array[0].

For example:

$ perf probe -a 'bio_split bi->bi_io_vec[0]'

Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100519195742.2885.5344.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 73317b95 19-May-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Support "string" type

Support string type casting to event argument. If perf-probe finds an argument
casted as string, it ensures the target variable is "(unsigned/signed) char
*(or []). perf-probe also adds dereference if the target is a pointer.

So, both of 'char buf[10];' and 'char *buf;' can be accessed by 'buf:string'

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100519195734.2885.1666.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 9ed7e1b8 14-Jun-2010 Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>

perf probe: Add kernel source path option

The probe plugin requires access to the source code for some operations. The
source code must be in the exact same location as specified by the DWARF tags,
but sometimes the location is an absolute path that cannot be replicated by a
normal user. This change adds the -s|--source option to allow the user to
specify the root of the kernel source tree.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <1276543590-10486-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# ef4a3565 21-Apr-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Add --max-probes option

Add --max-probes option to change the maximum limit of
findable probe points per event, since inlined function can be
expanded into thousands of probe points. Default value is 128.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
LKML-Reference: <20100421195640.24664.62984.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 11a1ca35 12-Apr-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Support basic type casting

Add basic type casting for arguments to perf probe. This allows
users to specify the actual type of arguments. Of course, if
user sets invalid types, kprobe-tracer rejects that.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100412171722.3790.50372.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# df0faf4b 12-Apr-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Use the last field name as the argument name

Set the last field name to the argument name when the argument
is refering a data-structure member.

e.g.
./perf probe --add 'vfs_read file->f_mode'
Add new event:
probe:vfs_read (on vfs_read with f_mode=file->f_mode)

This probe records file->f_mode, but the argument name becomes "f_mode".

This enables perf-trace command to parse trace event format correctly.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100412171700.3790.72961.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 48481938 12-Apr-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Support argument name

Set given names to event arguments. The syntax is same as kprobe-tracer,
you can add 'NAME=' right before each argument.

e.g.
./perf probe vfs_read foo=file

then, 'foo' is set to the argument name as below.

./perf probe -l
probe:vfs_read (on vfs_read@linux-2.6-tip/fs/read_write.c with foo)

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100412171653.3790.74624.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 085ea739 01-Apr-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Fix --line syntax help and document

Just fix typos. --line option accepts ':START-END' syntax,
not ':START:END'.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
LKML-Reference: <20100402165038.23551.62590.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# f4d7da49 16-Mar-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Add --dry-run option

Add --dry-run option for debugging and testing.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100316220605.32050.6571.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 2a9c8c36 25-Feb-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Add lazy line matching support

Add lazy line matching support for specifying new probes.
This also changes the syntax of perf probe a bit. Now
perf probe accepts one of below probe event definitions.

1) Define event based on function name
[EVENT=]FUNC[@SRC][:RLN|+OFF|%return|;PTN] [ARG ...]

2) Define event based on source file with line number
[EVENT=]SRC:ALN [ARG ...]

3) Define event based on source file with lazy pattern
[EVENT=]SRC;PTN [ARG ...]

- New lazy matching pattern(PTN) follows ';' (semicolon). And it
must be put the end of the definition.
- So, @SRC is no longer the part which must be put at the end
of the definition.

Note that ';' (semicolon) can be interpreted as the end of
a command by the shell. This means that you need to quote it.
(anyway you will need to quote the lazy pattern itself too,
because it may contains other sensitive characters, like
'[',']' etc.).

Lazy matching
-------------
The lazy line matching is similar to glob matching except
ignoring spaces in both of pattern and target.

e.g.
'a=*' can matches 'a=b', 'a = b', 'a == b' and so on.

This provides some sort of flexibility and robustness to
probe point definitions against minor code changes.
(for example, actual 10th line of schedule() can be changed
easily by modifying schedule(), but the same line matching
'rq=cpu_rq*' may still exist.)

Changes in v3:
- Cast Dwarf_Addr to uintmax_t for printf-formats.

Changes in v2:
- Cast Dwarf_Addr to unsigned long long for printf-formats.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133611.6725.45078.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# ee391de8 25-Feb-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Update perf probe document

Update perf-probe.txt to suit to current perf-probe command
and add some examples.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133519.6725.58816.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 631c9def 06-Jan-2010 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Support --line option to show probable source-code lines

Add --line option to support showing probable source-code lines.

perf probe --line SRC:LN[-LN|+NUM]
or
perf probe --line FUNC[:LN[-LN|+NUM]]

This option shows source-code with line number if the line can
be probed. Lines without line number (and blue color) means that
the line can not be probed, because debuginfo doesn't have the
information of those lines.

The argument specifies the range of lines, "source.c:100-120"
shows lines between 100th to l20th in source.c file. And
"func:10+20" shows 20 lines from 10th line of func function.

e.g.
# ./perf probe --line kernel/sched.c:1080
<kernel/sched.c:1080>
*
* called with rq->lock held and irqs disabled
*/
static void hrtick_start(struct rq *rq, u64 delay)
{
struct hrtimer *timer = &rq->hrtick_timer;
1086 ktime_t time = ktime_add_ns(timer->base->get_time(), delay);

hrtimer_set_expires(timer, time);

1090 if (rq == this_rq()) {
1091 hrtimer_restart(timer);
1092 } else if (!rq->hrtick_csd_pending) {
1093 __smp_call_function_single(cpu_of(rq), &rq->hrtick_csd,
1094 rq->hrtick_csd_pending = 1;

If you specifying function name, this shows function-relative
line number.

# ./perf probe --line schedule
<schedule:0>
asmlinkage void __sched schedule(void)
1 {
struct task_struct *prev, *next;
unsigned long *switch_count;
struct rq *rq;
int cpu;

need_resched:
preempt_disable();
9 cpu = smp_processor_id();
10 rq = cpu_rq(cpu);
11 rcu_sched_qs(cpu);
12 prev = rq->curr;
13 switch_count = &prev->nivcsw;

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
LKML-Reference: <20100106144534.27218.77939.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# af663d75 15-Dec-2009 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

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>


# c937fe20 08-Dec-2009 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf probe: Update perf-probe document

Add --list and --del option descriptions to perf-probe.txt.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@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: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091208220330.10142.73296.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# c43f9d1e 03-Nov-2009 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf/probes: Update Documentation/perf-probe.txt

Update Documentation/perf-probe.txt accoding to recent
syntax changes.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.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>
LKML-Reference: <20091104001212.3454.19415.stgit@harusame>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


# 595c3649 16-Oct-2009 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>

perf: Add perf-probe document

Add perf-probe subcommand document and add it to command-list.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20091017000827.16556.73539.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>