linux/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
Masami Hiramatsu af663d75a6 perf probe: Support event name for --add option
Support event name syntax for --add option. This allows
users to specify event name for each new event.

The --add syntax is:
 perf probe --add '[EVENT=]SRC:LINE ARGS'
or
 perf probe --add '[EVENT=]FUNC[+OFFS|%return|:RLN][@SRC] ARGS'

e.g.

 ./perf probe --add myprobe1=schedule

Note: currently group name is not supported yet, because it
can cause name-space confliction with other tracepoint/
hw-breakpoint events.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20091215153218.17436.84675.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-15 20:22:03 +01:00

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perf-probe(1)
=============
NAME
----
perf-probe - Define new dynamic tracepoints
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'perf probe' [options] --add='PROBE' [...]
or
'perf probe' [options] PROBE
or
'perf probe' [options] --del='[GROUP:]EVENT' [...]
or
'perf probe' --list
DESCRIPTION
-----------
This command defines dynamic tracepoint events, by symbol and registers
without debuginfo, or by C expressions (C line numbers, C function names,
and C local variables) with debuginfo.
OPTIONS
-------
-k::
--vmlinux=PATH::
Specify vmlinux path which has debuginfo (Dwarf binary).
-v::
--verbose::
Be more verbose (show parsed arguments, etc).
-a::
--add=::
Define a probe event (see PROBE SYNTAX for detail).
-d::
--del=::
Delete a probe event.
-l::
--list::
List up current probe events.
PROBE SYNTAX
------------
Probe points are defined by following syntax.
"[EVENT=]FUNC[+OFFS|:RLN|%return][@SRC]|SRC:ALN [ARG ...]"
'EVENT' specifies the name of new event, if omitted, it will be set the name of the probed function. Currently, event group name is set as 'probe'.
'FUNC' specifies a probed function name, and it may have one of the following options; '+OFFS' is the offset from function entry address in bytes, 'RLN' is the relative-line number from function entry line, and '%return' means that it probes function return. In addition, 'SRC' specifies a source file which has that function.
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).
SEE ALSO
--------
linkperf:perf-trace[1], linkperf:perf-record[1]