From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1424053AbcFHJck (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2016 05:32:40 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.136]:46959 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423836AbcFHJch (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Jun 2016 05:32:37 -0400 From: Masami Hiramatsu To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Masami Hiramatsu , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Namhyung Kim , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Hemant Kumar , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Brendan Gregg Subject: [PATCH perf/core v10 21/23] perf probe: Support a special SDT probe format Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2016 18:32:32 +0900 Message-Id: <20160608093231.3116.75868.stgit@devbox> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160608092854.3116.29007.stgit@devbox> References: <20160608092854.3116.29007.stgit@devbox> User-Agent: StGit/0.17.1-dirty MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Support a special SDT probe format which can omit the '%' prefix only if the SDT group name starts with "sdt_". So, for example both of "%sdt_libc:setjump" and "sdt_libc:setjump" are acceptable for perf probe --add. Suggested-by: Brendan Gregg Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | 4 +++- tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt index 39e3870..736da44 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt @@ -152,7 +152,9 @@ Probe points are defined by following syntax. [[GROUP:]EVENT=]SRC;PTN [ARG ...] 4) Pre-defined SDT events or cached event with name - %[PROVIDER:]SDTEVENT + %[sdt_PROVIDER:]SDTEVENT + or, + sdt_PROVIDER:SDTEVENT 'EVENT' specifies the name of new event, if omitted, it will be set the name of the probed function. You can also specify a group name by 'GROUP', if omitted, set 'probe' is used for kprobe and 'probe_' is used for uprobe. Note that using existing group name can conflict with other events. Especially, using the group name reserved for kernel modules can hide embedded events in the diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c index 6d3398b..7c43c6a 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c @@ -1245,9 +1245,17 @@ static int parse_perf_probe_point(char *arg, struct perf_probe_event *pev) if (!arg) return -EINVAL; - if (arg[0] == '%') { + /* + * If the probe point starts with '%', + * or starts with "sdt_" and has a ':' but no '=', + * then it should be a SDT/cached probe point. + */ + if (arg[0] == '%' || + (!strncmp(arg, "sdt_", 4) && + !!strchr(arg, ':') && !strchr(arg, '='))) { pev->sdt = true; - arg++; + if (arg[0] == '%') + arg++; } ptr = strpbrk(arg, ";=@+%");