From ee391de876ae4272926b8632be04ed4a460321e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:35:19 -0500 Subject: 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 Cc: systemtap Cc: DLE Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: K.Prasad Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli LKML-Reference: <20100225133519.6725.58816.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation') diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt index 2de34075f6a4..5fe63c0ca80c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt @@ -41,7 +41,8 @@ OPTIONS -d:: --del=:: - Delete a probe event. + Delete probe events. This accepts glob wildcards('*', '?') and character + classes(e.g. [a-z], [!A-Z]). -l:: --list:: @@ -50,7 +51,11 @@ OPTIONS -L:: --line=:: Show source code lines which can be probed. This needs an argument - which specifies a range of the source code. + which specifies a range of the source code. (see LINE SYNTAX for detail) + +-f:: +--force:: + Forcibly add events with existing name. PROBE SYNTAX ------------ @@ -76,6 +81,25 @@ and 'ALN2' is end line number in the file. It is also possible to specify how many lines to show by using 'NUM'. So, "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. +EXAMPLES +-------- +Display which lines in schedule() can be probed: + + ./perf probe --line schedule + +Add a probe on schedule() function 12th line with recording cpu local variable: + + ./perf probe schedule:12 cpu + or + ./perf probe --add='schedule:12 cpu' + + this will add one or more probes which has the name start with "schedule". + +Delete all probes on schedule(). + + ./perf probe --del='schedule*' + + SEE ALSO -------- linkperf:perf-trace[1], linkperf:perf-record[1] -- cgit v1.2.3