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author | Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-04-16 17:39:09 +0530 |
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committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> | 2012-05-11 13:58:17 -0300 |
commit | 225466f1c2d816c33b4341008f45dfdc83a9f0cb (patch) | |
tree | 72cd2adf96464922e64fc86dc76bf321f426bbf1 /block/bsg-lib.c | |
parent | 5dcefda0fd87fefa440abc9b9d3f1089229f8911 (diff) | |
download | op-kernel-dev-225466f1c2d816c33b4341008f45dfdc83a9f0cb.zip op-kernel-dev-225466f1c2d816c33b4341008f45dfdc83a9f0cb.tar.gz |
perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes
- Enhances perf to probe user space executables and libraries.
- Enhances -F/--funcs option of "perf probe" to list possible probe points in
an executable file or library.
- Documents userspace probing support in perf.
[ Probing a function in the executable using function name ]
perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree
[ Probing a library function using function name ]
perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
[ list probe-able functions in an executable ]
perf probe -F -x /bin/zsh
[ list probe-able functions in an library]
perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120416120909.30661.99781.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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