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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vince@deater.net,
	eranian@google.com, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
	Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 4/5] perf: Introduce address range filtering
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 16:25:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160425142506.GJ3430@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zisl8vls.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 07:19:11PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> +/*
> + * Address range filtering: limiting the data to certain
> + * instruction address ranges. Filters are ioctl()ed to us from
> + * userspace as ascii strings.
> + *
> + * Filter string format:
> + *
> + * ACTION SOURCE:RANGE_SPEC
> + * where ACTION is one of the
> + *  * "filter": limit the trace to this region
> + *  * "start": start tracing from this address
> + *  * "stop": stop tracing at this address/region;
> + * SOURCE is either "file" or "kernel"
> + * RANGE_SPEC is
> + *  * for "kernel": <start address>[/<size>]
> + *  * for "file":   <start address>[/<size>]@</path/to/object/file>

SOURCE seems entirely redundant

> + *
> + * if <size> is not specified, the range is treated as a single address.

single instruction, right?

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-25 14:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-04-21 15:16 [PATCH v1 0/5] perf: Introduce address range filtering Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-21 15:16 ` [PATCH v1 1/5] perf: Move set_filter() from behind EVENT_TRACING Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-21 15:17 ` [PATCH v1 2/5] perf/x86/intel/pt: IP filtering register/cpuid bits Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-21 17:48   ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-21 18:55     ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-04-21 19:17       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-21 20:39         ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-21 20:37       ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-22  7:58         ` Thomas Gleixner
2016-04-22  9:34           ` Borislav Petkov
2016-04-21 15:17 ` [PATCH v1 3/5] perf: Extend perf_event_aux_ctx() to optionally iterate through more events Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-21 15:17 ` [PATCH v1 4/5] perf: Introduce address range filtering Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-22  7:45   ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-22 16:19     ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-25 12:57       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-25 15:41         ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-25 13:10       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-25 13:36         ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-25 16:02         ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-25 13:19       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-25 16:03         ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-25 14:14       ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-04-25 16:07         ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-25 14:25       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-04-25 16:14         ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-26 14:35         ` Alexander Shishkin
2016-04-21 15:17 ` [PATCH v1 5/5] perf/x86/intel/pt: Add support for address range filtering in PT Alexander Shishkin

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