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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2015-04-24 11:47:50 +0200
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-05-04 17:43:56 +0200
commitb6a896438b3275df434a8f99bee58292b31693bd (patch)
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parentperf probe: Accept multiple filter options (diff)
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index a4a3cc76b36b..d0feb8e6eeef 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ or
or
'perf probe' [options] --del='[GROUP:]EVENT' [...]
or
-'perf probe' --list
+'perf probe' --list[=[GROUP:]EVENT]
or
'perf probe' [options] --line='LINE'
or
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@ OPTIONS
classes(e.g. [a-z], [!A-Z]).
-l::
---list::
- List up current probe events.
+--list[=[GROUP:]EVENT]::
+ List up current probe events. This can also accept filtering patterns of event names.
-L::
--line=::