From 225466f1c2d816c33b4341008f45dfdc83a9f0cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Srikar Dronamraju Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:39:09 +0530 Subject: 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 Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Anton Arapov Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jim Keniston Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Linux-mm Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120416120909.30661.99781.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/symbol.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'tools/perf/util/symbol.h') diff --git a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h index 1f003884f1a..5649d63798c 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/symbol.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/symbol.h @@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ void dso__set_long_name(struct dso *dso, char *name); void dso__set_build_id(struct dso *dso, void *build_id); void dso__read_running_kernel_build_id(struct dso *dso, struct machine *machine); +struct map *dso__new_map(const char *name); struct symbol *dso__find_symbol(struct dso *dso, enum map_type type, u64 addr); struct symbol *dso__find_symbol_by_name(struct dso *dso, enum map_type type, -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2