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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-11-03 19:12:13 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-04 07:02:46 -0500
commitc43f9d1e61e265c6bfafdd65c7f07c8d71a7efc3 (patch)
tree5412667f3470fb7e9cbc399eb69c0aaab4be68e3 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent12e4db4790b1bd2b7ec70eb2a1386c00fc683740 (diff)
perf/probes: Update Documentation/perf-probe.txt
Update Documentation/perf-probe.txt accoding to recent syntax changes. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <20091104001212.3454.19415.stgit@harusame> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
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@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ perf-probe - Define new dynamic tracepoints
8SYNOPSIS 8SYNOPSIS
9-------- 9--------
10[verse] 10[verse]
11'perf probe' [-k <file>] -P 'PROBE' [-P 'PROBE' ...] 11'perf probe' [options] --add 'PROBE' [--add 'PROBE' ...]
12or
13'perf probe' [options] 'PROBE' ['PROBE' ...]
12 14
13 15
14DESCRIPTION 16DESCRIPTION
@@ -21,26 +23,25 @@ and C local variables) with debuginfo.
21OPTIONS 23OPTIONS
22------- 24-------
23-k:: 25-k::
24--vmlinux:: 26--vmlinux=PATH::
25 Specify vmlinux path which has debuginfo (Dwarf binary). 27 Specify vmlinux path which has debuginfo (Dwarf binary).
26 28
27-v:: 29-v::
28--verbose:: 30--verbose::
29 Be more verbose (show parsed arguments, etc). 31 Be more verbose (show parsed arguments, etc).
30 32
31-P:: 33-a::
32--probe:: 34--add::
33 Define a probe point (see PROBE SYNTAX for detail) 35 Define a probe point (see PROBE SYNTAX for detail)
34 36
35PROBE SYNTAX 37PROBE SYNTAX
36------------ 38------------
37Probe points are defined by following syntax. 39Probe points are defined by following syntax.
38 40
39 "TYPE:[GRP/]NAME FUNC[+OFFS][@SRC]|@SRC:LINE [ARG ...]" 41 "FUNC[+OFFS|:RLN|%return][@SRC]|SRC:ALN [ARG ...]"
40 42
41'TYPE' specifies the type of probe point, you can use either "p" (kprobe) or "r" (kretprobe) for 'TYPE'. 'GRP' specifies the group name of this probe, and 'NAME' specifies the event name. If 'GRP' is omitted, "kprobes" is used for its group name. 43'FUNC' specifies a probed function name, and it may have one of the following options; '+OFFS' is the offset from function entry address in bytes, 'RLN' is the relative-line number from function entry line, and '%return' means that it probes function return. In addition, 'SRC' specifies a source file which has that function.
42'FUNC' and 'OFFS' specifies function and offset (in byte) where probe will be put. In addition, 'SRC' specifies a source file which has that function (this is mainly for inline functions). 44It is also possible to specify a probe point by the source line number by using 'SRC:ALN' syntax, where 'SRC' is the source file path and 'ALN' is the line number.
43You can specify a probe point by the source line number by using '@SRC:LINE' syntax, where 'SRC' is the source file path and 'LINE' is the line number.
44'ARG' specifies the arguments of this probe point. You can use the name of local variable, or kprobe-tracer argument format (e.g. $retval, %ax, etc). 45'ARG' specifies the arguments of this probe point. You can use the name of local variable, or kprobe-tracer argument format (e.g. $retval, %ax, etc).
45 46
46SEE ALSO 47SEE ALSO