perf: Add perf probe subcommand, a kprobe-event setup helper
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Thu, 8 Oct 2009 21:17:38 +0000 (17:17 -0400)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:31:52 +0000 (23:31 +0200)
commit4ea42b181434bfc6a0a18d32214130a242d489bf
tree2c467d795d90440e0293951087c41caca8397584
parente93f4d8539d5e9dd59f4af9d8ef4e9b62cfa1f81
perf: Add perf probe subcommand, a kprobe-event setup helper

Add perf probe subcommand that implements a kprobe-event setup helper
to the perf command.
This allows user to define kprobe events using C expressions (C line
numbers, C function names, and C local variables).

Usage
-----
 perf probe [<options>] -P 'PROBEDEF' [-P 'PROBEDEF' ...]

    -k, --vmlinux <file>  vmlinux/module pathname
    -P, --probe <p|r:[GRP/]NAME FUNC[+OFFS][@SRC]|@SRC:LINE [ARG ...]>
                          probe point definition, where
p: kprobe probe
r: kretprobe probe
GRP: Group name (optional)
NAME: Event name
FUNC: Function name
OFFS: Offset from function entry (in byte)
SRC: Source code path
LINE: Line number
ARG: Probe argument (local variable name or
kprobe-tracer argument format is supported.)

Changes in v4:
 - Add _GNU_SOURCE macro for strndup().

Changes in v3:
 - Remove -r option because perf always be used for online kernel.
 - Check malloc/calloc results.

Changes in v2:
 - Check synthesized string length.
 - Rename perf kprobe to perf probe.
 - Use spaces for separator and update usage comment.
 - Check error paths in parse_probepoint().
 - Check optimized-out variables.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091008211737.29299.14784.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
tools/perf/Makefile
tools/perf/builtin-probe.c [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/perf/builtin.h
tools/perf/perf.c
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c [new file with mode: 0644]
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h [new file with mode: 0644]