Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 3/8] perf probe: Improve detection of file/function name in the probe pattern | From | Michael Ellerman <> | Date | Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:00:06 +1100 |
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On Tue, 2014-12-09 at 23:04 +0530, Naveen N. Rao wrote: > Currently, perf probe considers patterns including a '.' to be a file. > However, this causes problems on powerpc ABIv1 where all functions have > a leading '.': > > $ perf probe -F | grep schedule_timeout_interruptible > .schedule_timeout_interruptible > $ perf probe .schedule_timeout_interruptible > Semantic error :File always requires line number or lazy pattern. > Error: Command Parse Error. > > Fix this by checking the probe pattern in more detail. > > Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> > --- > tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c > index c150ca4..c7e01ef 100644 > --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c > +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c > @@ -999,6 +999,24 @@ static int parse_perf_probe_point(char *arg, struct perf_probe_event *pev) > arg = tmp; > } > > + /* > + * Check arg is function or file name and copy it. > + * > + * We consider arg to be a file spec if and only if it satisfies > + * all of the below criteria:: > + * - it does not include any of "+@%", > + * - it includes one of ":;", and > + * - it has a period '.' in the name.
I don't think we need to be this elaborate.
AFAIK there are no source files in the kernel that start with '.'
So if the arg starts with '.' it must be a function?
cheers
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