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| author | Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> | 2010-02-25 08:35:19 -0500 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-02-25 17:49:27 +0100 |
| commit | ee391de876ae4272926b8632be04ed4a460321e3 (patch) | |
| tree | a783995197f83cb1c5c8325b6a311a3aede82fbf /tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | |
| parent | f3ab481ca6ffe5e272c8501317bea726f9a83959 (diff) | |
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 <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100225133519.6725.58816.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | 28 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt index 2de34075f6a..5fe63c0ca80 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] |