History log of /linux-master/tools/perf/util/probe-file.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# 66f69b21 18-Nov-2019 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Support DW_AT_const_value constant value

Support DW_AT_const_value for variable assignment instead of location.
Note that this requires ftrace supporting immediate value.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/157406476012.24476.16096289871757175775.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 72363540 18-Nov-2019 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Support multiprobe event

Support multiprobe event if the event is based on function and lines and
kernel supports it. In this case, perf probe creates the first probe
with an event, and tries to append following probes on that event, since
those probes must be on the same source code line.

Before this patch;

# perf probe -a vfs_read:18
Added new events:
probe:vfs_read_L18 (on vfs_read:18)
probe:vfs_read_L18_1 (on vfs_read:18)

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

perf record -e probe:vfs_read_L18_1 -aR sleep 1

#

After this patch (on multiprobe supported kernel)
# perf probe -a vfs_read:18
Added new events:
probe:vfs_read_L18 (on vfs_read:18)
probe:vfs_read_L18 (on vfs_read:18)

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

perf record -e probe:vfs_read_L18 -aR sleep 1

#

Committer testing:

On a kernel that doesn't support multiprobe events, after this patch:

# uname -a
Linux quaco 5.3.8-200.fc30.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Oct 29 14:46:22 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
# grep append /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/README
be modified by appending '.descending' or '.ascending' to a
can be modified by appending any of the following modifiers
#
# perf probe -a vfs_read:18
Added new events:
probe:vfs_read_L18 (on vfs_read:18)
probe:vfs_read_L18_1 (on vfs_read:18)

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

perf record -e probe:vfs_read_L18_1 -aR sleep 1

# perf probe -l
probe:vfs_read_L18 (on vfs_read:18@fs/read_write.c)
probe:vfs_read_L18_1 (on vfs_read:18@fs/read_write.c)
#

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/157406475010.24476.586290752591512351.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>


# 5a5e3d3c 19-Aug-2018 Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>

perf probe: Support SDT markers having reference counter (semaphore)

With this, perf buildid-cache will save SDT markers with reference
counter in probe cache. Perf probe will be able to probe markers
having reference counter. Ex,

# readelf -n /tmp/tick | grep -A1 loop2
Name: loop2
... Semaphore: 0x0000000010020036

# ./perf buildid-cache --add /tmp/tick
# ./perf probe sdt_tick:loop2
# ./perf stat -e sdt_tick:loop2 /tmp/tick
hi: 0
hi: 1
hi: 2
^C
Performance counter stats for '/tmp/tick':
3 sdt_tick:loop2
2.561851452 seconds time elapsed

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180820044250.11659-5-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com

Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Tested-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 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>


# 8ec20b17 18-Apr-2017 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

perf str{filter,list}: Disentangle headers

There are places where we just need a forward declaration, and others
were we need to include strlist.h and/or strfilter.h, reducing the
impact of changes in headers on the build time, do it.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-zab42gbiki88y9k0csorxekb@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 7ab31d94 08-Mar-2017 Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

perf kretprobes: Offset from reloc_sym if kernel supports it

We indicate support for accepting sym+offset with kretprobes through a
line in ftrace README. Parse the same to identify support and choose the
appropriate format for kprobe_events.

As an example, without this perf patch, but with the ftrace changes:

naveen@ubuntu:~/linux/tools/perf$ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/README | grep kretprobe
place (kretprobe): [<module>:]<symbol>[+<offset>]|<memaddr>
naveen@ubuntu:~/linux/tools/perf$
naveen@ubuntu:~/linux/tools/perf$ sudo ./perf probe -v do_open%return
probe-definition(0): do_open%return
symbol:do_open file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:1 lazy:(null)
0 arguments
Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
Using /boot/vmlinux for symbols
Open Debuginfo file: /boot/vmlinux
Try to find probe point from debuginfo.
Matched function: do_open [2d0c7d8]
Probe point found: do_open+0
Matched function: do_open [35d76b5]
found inline addr: 0xc0000000004ba984
Failed to find "do_open%return",
because do_open is an inlined function and has no return point.
An error occurred in debuginfo analysis (-22).
Trying to use symbols.
Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing//kprobe_events write=1
Writing event: r:probe/do_open do_open+0
Writing event: r:probe/do_open_1 do_open+0
Added new events:
probe:do_open (on do_open%return)
probe:do_open_1 (on do_open%return)

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

perf record -e probe:do_open_1 -aR sleep 1

naveen@ubuntu:~/linux/tools/perf$ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list
c000000000041370 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED]
c0000000004433d0 r do_open+0x0 [DISABLED]
c0000000004433d0 r do_open+0x0 [DISABLED]

And after this patch (and the subsequent powerpc patch):

naveen@ubuntu:~/linux/tools/perf$ sudo ./perf probe -v do_open%return
probe-definition(0): do_open%return
symbol:do_open file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:1 lazy:(null)
0 arguments
Looking at the vmlinux_path (8 entries long)
Using /boot/vmlinux for symbols
Open Debuginfo file: /boot/vmlinux
Try to find probe point from debuginfo.
Matched function: do_open [2d0c7d8]
Probe point found: do_open+0
Matched function: do_open [35d76b5]
found inline addr: 0xc0000000004ba984
Failed to find "do_open%return",
because do_open is an inlined function and has no return point.
An error occurred in debuginfo analysis (-22).
Trying to use symbols.
Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing//README write=0
Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing//kprobe_events write=1
Writing event: r:probe/do_open _text+4469712
Writing event: r:probe/do_open_1 _text+4956248
Added new events:
probe:do_open (on do_open%return)
probe:do_open_1 (on do_open%return)

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

perf record -e probe:do_open_1 -aR sleep 1

naveen@ubuntu:~/linux/tools/perf$ sudo cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list
c000000000041370 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED]
c0000000004433d0 r do_open+0x0 [DISABLED]
c0000000004ba058 r do_open+0x8 [DISABLED]

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/496ef9f33c1ab16286ece9dd62aa672807aef91c.1488961018.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# e491bc2f 23-Feb-2017 Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

perf probe: Generalize probe event file open routine

Generalize probe event file open routine into a generic function for opening
trace files.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/b580465c7a4dcd5d3b40fdf8568e6be45d0a6333.1487849577.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 180b2061 18-Aug-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Add supported for type casting by the running kernel

Add a checking routine what types are supported by the running kernel by
finding the pattern in <debugfs>/tracing/README.

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/147151071172.12957.3340095690753291085.stgit@devbox
[ 'enum probe_type' has no negative entries, so ends up as 'unsigned', remove '< 0'
test to fix the build on at least centos:5, debian:7 & ubuntu:12.04.5 ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 40218dae 24-Jun-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf list: Show SDT and pre-cached events

Show SDT and pre-cached events by perf-list with "sdt". This also shows
the binary and build-id where the events are placed only when there are
same name events on different binaries.

e.g.:

# perf list sdt

List of pre-defined events (to be used in -e):

sdt_libc:lll_futex_wake [SDT event]
sdt_libc:lll_lock_wait_private [SDT event]
sdt_libc:longjmp [SDT event]
sdt_libc:longjmp_target [SDT event]
...
sdt_libstdcxx:rethrow@/usr/bin/gcc(0cc207fc4b27) [SDT event]
sdt_libstdcxx:rethrow@/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.20(91c7a88fdf49)
sdt_libstdcxx:throw@/usr/bin/gcc(0cc207fc4b27) [SDT event]
sdt_libstdcxx:throw@/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.20(91c7a88fdf49)

The binary path and build-id are shown in below format;

<GROUP>:<EVENT>@<PATH>(<BUILD-ID>)

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/20160624090646.25421.44225.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 42bba263 12-Jul-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Allow wildcard for cached events

Allo glob wildcard for reusing cached/SDT events. E.g.

# perf probe -x /usr/lib64/libc-2.20.so -a %sdt_libc:\*

This example adds probes for all SDT in libc.
Note that the SDTs must have been scanned by perf buildid-cache.

Committer note:

Using it to check what of those SDT probes would take place when doing
a cargo run (rust):

# trace --no-sys --event sdt_libc:* cargo run
0.000 sdt_libc:setjmp:(7f326b69c4d1))
28.423 sdt_libc:setjmp:(7f4b0a5364d1))
29.000 sdt_libc:setjmp:(7f4b0a5364d1))
88.597 sdt_libc:setjmp:(7fc01fd414d1))
89.220 sdt_libc:setjmp:(7fc01fd414d1))
95.501 sdt_libc:setjmp:(7f326b69c4d1))
Running `target/debug/hello_world`
97.110 sdt_libc:setjmp:(7f95e09234d1))
Hello, world!
#

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/146831791813.17065.17846564230840594888.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 05bf2c8a 12-Jul-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe-cache: Add for_each_probe_cache_entry() wrapper

Add for_each_probe_cache_entry() wrapper macro for hiding list in
probe_cache.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
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/146831790386.17065.15082256697569419710.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 6430a94e 01-Jul-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf buildid-cache: Scan and import user SDT events to probe cache

perf buildid-cache --add <binary> scans given binary and add
the SDT events to probe cache. "sdt_" prefix is appended for
all SDT providers to avoid event-name clash with other pre-defined
events. It is possible to use the cached SDT events as other cached
events, via perf probe --add "sdt_<provider>:<event>=<event>".

e.g.
----
# perf buildid-cache --add /lib/libc-2.17.so
# perf probe --cache --list | head -n 5
/usr/lib/libc-2.17.so (a6fb821bdf53660eb2c29f778757aef294d3d392):
sdt_libc:setjmp=setjmp
sdt_libc:longjmp=longjmp
sdt_libc:longjmp_target=longjmp_target
sdt_libc:memory_heap_new=memory_heap_new
# perf probe -x /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so \
-a sdt_libc:memory_heap_new=memory_heap_new
Added new event:
sdt_libc:memory_heap_new (on memory_heap_new
in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so)

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

perf record -e sdt_libc:memory_heap_new -aR sleep 1

# perf probe -l
sdt_libc:memory_heap_new (on new_heap+183 in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so)
----

Note that SDT event entries in probe-cache file is somewhat different
from normal cached events. Normal one starts with "#", but SDTs are
starting with "%".

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/146736025058.27797.13043265488541434502.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>


# bc062230 01-Jul-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Use cache entry if possible

Before analyzing debuginfo, try to find a corresponding entry from probe
cache always. This does not depend on --cache, the --cache enables to
store/update cache, but looking up the cache is always enabled.

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/146736019226.27797.16366402884098398857.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# dd975497 14-Jun-2016 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

perf probe: Introduce perf_cache interfaces

Introduce perf_cache object and interfaces to create, add entries,
commit, and delete the object.

perf_cache represents a file for the cached "perf probe" definitions on
one binary file or vmlinux which has its own build id. The probe cache
file is located under the build-id cache directory of the target binary,
as below;

<perf-debug-dir>/.build-id/<BU>/<ILDID>/probe

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/20160615032830.31330.84998.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# e607f142 04-Sep-2015 Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

perf probe: Print deleted events in cmd_probe()

Showing actual trace event when deleteing perf events is only needed in
perf probe command. But the add functionality itself can be used by
other places. So move the printing code into the cmd_probe().

The output is not changed.

Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441368963-11565-5-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>


# 92f6c72e 15-Jul-2015 Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

perf probe: Move ftrace probe-event operations to probe-file.c

Move ftrace probe-event operations to probe-file.c from probe-event.c.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Hemant Kumar <hemant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150715091407.8915.14316.stgit@localhost.localdomain
[ Fixed up strlist__new() calls wrt 4a77e2183fc0 ("perf strlist: Make dupstr be the...") ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>