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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2010-02-25 08:35:19 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-02-25 17:49:27 +0100
commitee391de876ae4272926b8632be04ed4a460321e3 (patch)
treea783995197f83cb1c5c8325b6a311a3aede82fbf /tools/perf/Documentation
parentf3ab481ca6ffe5e272c8501317bea726f9a83959 (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>
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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]