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authorSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-04-16 17:39:25 +0530
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2012-05-11 13:58:53 -0300
commit73eff9f56e15598c8399c0b86899fd889b97f085 (patch)
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perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent
Options -m and -x explicitly allow tracing of modules / user space binaries. In absense of these options, check if the first argument can be used as a target. perf probe /bin/zsh zfree is equivalent to perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree. Suggested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120416120925.30661.40409.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/builtin-probe.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/builtin-probe.c43
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
index ee3d84a7c895..e215ae61b2ae 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
@@ -85,21 +85,58 @@ static int parse_probe_event(const char *str)
return ret;
}
+static int set_target(const char *ptr)
+{
+ int found = 0;
+ const char *buf;
+
+ /*
+ * The first argument after options can be an absolute path
+ * to an executable / library or kernel module.
+ *
+ * TODO: Support relative path, and $PATH, $LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
+ * short module name.
+ */
+ if (!params.target && ptr && *ptr == '/') {
+ params.target = ptr;
+ found = 1;
+ buf = ptr + (strlen(ptr) - 3);
+
+ if (strcmp(buf, ".ko"))
+ params.uprobes = true;
+
+ }
+
+ return found;
+}
+
static int parse_probe_event_argv(int argc, const char **argv)
{
- int i, len, ret;
+ int i, len, ret, found_target;
char *buf;
+ found_target = set_target(argv[0]);
+ if (found_target && argc == 1)
+ return 0;
+
/* Bind up rest arguments */
len = 0;
- for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
+ if (i == 0 && found_target)
+ continue;
+
len += strlen(argv[i]) + 1;
+ }
buf = zalloc(len + 1);
if (buf == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
len = 0;
- for (i = 0; i < argc; i++)
+ for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
+ if (i == 0 && found_target)
+ continue;
+
len += sprintf(&buf[len], "%s ", argv[i]);
+ }
params.mod_events = true;
ret = parse_probe_event(buf);
free(buf);