Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:13:30 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] perf/probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes |
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Em Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 03:27:55PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu: > (2012/04/13 0:10), Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > >> $ perf probe libc malloc > >> > >> Makes it even easier to use. > >> > >> Its just when one asks for something that has ambiguities that > >> the tool should ask the user to be a bit more precise to remove such > >> ambiguity. > >> > >> After all...
> > Another case > > perf probe do_fork clone_flags now looks for variable clone_flags in > > kernel function do_fork.
> > But if we allow to trace perf probe zsh zfree; then > > 'perf probe do_fork clone_flags' should it check for do_fork executable > > or not? If it does check and finds one, and searches for clone_flags > > function and doesnt find, then should it continue with searching the > > kernel?
> Agree. I'd like to suggest you to start with only full path support, > and see, how we can handle abbreviations :)
Agreed, I was just making usability suggestions.
Those can be implemented later, if we agree they ease the tool use.
- Arnaldo
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