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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-04-14 13:18:27 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-04-14 13:19:04 +0200 |
commit | 6ac1ef482d7ae0c690f1640bf6eb818ff9a2d91e (patch) | |
tree | 021cc9f6b477146fcebe6f3be4752abfa2ba18a9 /Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt | |
parent | 682968e0c425c60f0dde37977e5beb2b12ddc4cc (diff) | |
parent | a385ec4f11bdcf81af094c03e2444ee9b7fad2e5 (diff) |
Merge branch 'perf/core' into perf/uprobes
Merge in latest upstream (and the latest perf development tree),
to prepare for tooling changes, and also to pick up v3.4 MM
changes that the uprobes code needs to take care of.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt | 30 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt b/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt index f959909d715..74e6c778267 100644 --- a/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt +++ b/Documentation/dynamic-debug-howto.txt @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ dynamically enabled per-callsite. Dynamic debug has even more useful features: * Simple query language allows turning on and off debugging statements by - matching any combination of: + matching any combination of 0 or 1 of: - source filename - function name @@ -79,31 +79,24 @@ Command Language Reference ========================== At the lexical level, a command comprises a sequence of words separated -by whitespace characters. Note that newlines are treated as word -separators and do *not* end a command or allow multiple commands to -be done together. So these are all equivalent: +by spaces or tabs. So these are all equivalent: nullarbor:~ # echo -c 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control nullarbor:~ # echo -c ' file svcsock.c line 1603 +p ' > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control -nullarbor:~ # echo -c 'file svcsock.c\nline 1603 +p' > - <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control nullarbor:~ # echo -n 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control -Commands are bounded by a write() system call. If you want to do -multiple commands you need to do a separate "echo" for each, like: +Command submissions are bounded by a write() system call. +Multiple commands can be written together, separated by ';' or '\n'. -nullarbor:~ # echo 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' > /proc/dprintk ;\ -> echo 'file svcsock.c line 1563 +p' > /proc/dprintk + ~# echo "func pnpacpi_get_resources +p; func pnp_assign_mem +p" \ + > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control -or even like: +If your query set is big, you can batch them too: -nullarbor:~ # ( -> echo 'file svcsock.c line 1603 +p' ;\ -> echo 'file svcsock.c line 1563 +p' ;\ -> ) > /proc/dprintk + ~# cat query-batch-file > <debugfs>/dynamic_debug/control At the syntactical level, a command comprises a sequence of match specifications, followed by a flags change specification. @@ -144,11 +137,12 @@ func func svc_tcp_accept file - The given string is compared against either the full - pathname or the basename of the source file of each - callsite. Examples: + The given string is compared against either the full pathname, the + src-root relative pathname, or the basename of the source file of + each callsite. Examples: file svcsock.c + file kernel/freezer.c file /usr/src/packages/BUILD/sgi-enhancednfs-1.4/default/net/sunrpc/svcsock.c module |