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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2010-01-06 09:45:34 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-01-13 10:09:14 +0100
commit631c9def804b2c92b5cca04fb9ff7b5df9e35094 (patch)
tree3ce09a1894f765bbea6538335ef11950287d66ee /tools/perf/Documentation
parent6964cd2c8efe6e048401f1fe3952a06c563c34c1 (diff)
perf probe: Support --line option to show probable source-code lines
Add --line option to support showing probable source-code lines. perf probe --line SRC:LN[-LN|+NUM] or perf probe --line FUNC[:LN[-LN|+NUM]] This option shows source-code with line number if the line can be probed. Lines without line number (and blue color) means that the line can not be probed, because debuginfo doesn't have the information of those lines. The argument specifies the range of lines, "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. e.g. # ./perf probe --line kernel/sched.c:1080 <kernel/sched.c:1080> * * called with rq->lock held and irqs disabled */ static void hrtick_start(struct rq *rq, u64 delay) { struct hrtimer *timer = &rq->hrtick_timer; 1086 ktime_t time = ktime_add_ns(timer->base->get_time(), delay); hrtimer_set_expires(timer, time); 1090 if (rq == this_rq()) { 1091 hrtimer_restart(timer); 1092 } else if (!rq->hrtick_csd_pending) { 1093 __smp_call_function_single(cpu_of(rq), &rq->hrtick_csd, 1094 rq->hrtick_csd_pending = 1; If you specifying function name, this shows function-relative line number. # ./perf probe --line schedule <schedule:0> asmlinkage void __sched schedule(void) 1 { struct task_struct *prev, *next; unsigned long *switch_count; struct rq *rq; int cpu; need_resched: preempt_disable(); 9 cpu = smp_processor_id(); 10 rq = cpu_rq(cpu); 11 rcu_sched_qs(cpu); 12 prev = rq->curr; 13 switch_count = &prev->nivcsw; Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> LKML-Reference: <20100106144534.27218.77939.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> 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
index 250e391b4bc8..2de34075f6a4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ or
'perf probe' [options] --del='[GROUP:]EVENT' [...]
or
'perf probe' --list
+or
+'perf probe' --line='FUNC[:RLN[+NUM|:RLN2]]|SRC:ALN[+NUM|:ALN2]'
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -45,6 +47,11 @@ OPTIONS
--list::
List up current probe events.
+-L::
+--line=::
+ Show source code lines which can be probed. This needs an argument
+ which specifies a range of the source code.
+
PROBE SYNTAX
------------
Probe points are defined by following syntax.
@@ -56,6 +63,19 @@ Probe points are defined by following syntax.
It 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.
'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).
+LINE SYNTAX
+-----------
+Line range is descripted by following syntax.
+
+ "FUNC[:RLN[+NUM|:RLN2]]|SRC:ALN[+NUM|:ALN2]"
+
+FUNC specifies the function name of showing lines. 'RLN' is the start line
+number from function entry line, and 'RLN2' is the end line number. As same as
+probe syntax, 'SRC' means the source file path, 'ALN' is start line number,
+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.
+
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-trace[1], linkperf:perf-record[1]