perf probe: Detect probe target when m/x options are absent
authorSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 16 Apr 2012 12:09:25 +0000 (17:39 +0530)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 11 May 2012 16:58:53 +0000 (13:58 -0300)
commit73eff9f56e15598c8399c0b86899fd889b97f085
tree66af5bbb7d09dac1ccbf90737f16ffb23f334e2c
parent225466f1c2d816c33b4341008f45dfdc83a9f0cb
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>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
tools/perf/builtin-probe.c