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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2011-06-27 09:27:51 +0200
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2011-07-15 22:25:12 +0200
commit14a8fd7ceea6915c613746203d6e9a2bf273f16c (patch)
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parentperf probe: Add probed module in front of function (diff)
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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>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
index 2c0e64d0b4aa..5f2a5c7046df 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
@@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ static const struct option options[] = {
OPT_STRING('s', "source", &symbol_conf.source_prefix,
"directory", "path to kernel source"),
OPT_STRING('m', "module", &params.target_module,
- "modname", "target module name"),
+ "modname|path",
+ "target module name (for online) or path (for offline)"),
#endif
OPT__DRY_RUN(&probe_event_dry_run),
OPT_INTEGER('\0', "max-probes", &params.max_probe_points,