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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2011-06-27 16:27:51 +0900
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2011-07-15 16:25:12 -0400
commit14a8fd7ceea6915c613746203d6e9a2bf273f16c (patch)
tree738803bc847efa3a17e9076922f06ceaca20d8f0 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent190b57fcb9c5fed5414935a174094f534fc510bc (diff)
perf probe: Support adding probes on offline kernel modules
Support adding probes on offline kernel modules. This enables perf-probe to trace kernel-module init functions via perf-probe. If user gives the path of module with -m option, perf-probe expects the module is offline. This feature works with --add, --funcs, and --vars. E.g) # perf probe -m /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs/btrfs/btrfs.ko \ -a "extent_io_init:5 extent_state_cache" Add new events: probe:extent_io_init (on extent_io_init:5 with extent_state_cache) probe:extent_io_init_1 (on extent_io_init:5 with extent_state_cache) You can now use it on all perf tools, such as: perf record -e probe:extent_io_init_1 -aR sleep 1 Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110627072751.6528.10230.stgit@fedora15 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index 02bafce4b341..2780d9ce48bf 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -34,9 +34,11 @@ OPTIONS
Specify vmlinux path which has debuginfo (Dwarf binary).
-m::
---module=MODNAME::
+--module=MODNAME|PATH::
Specify module name in which perf-probe searches probe points
- or lines.
+ or lines. If a path of module file is passed, perf-probe
+ treat it as an offline module (this means you can add a probe on
+ a module which has not been loaded yet).
-s::
--source=PATH::