Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751953Ab0BRXVa (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:21:30 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:42026 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751642Ab0BRXVK (ORCPT ); Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:21:10 -0500 From: Masami Hiramatsu Subject: [PATCH -tip 0/9] perf-probe updates - use elfutils and introduce lazy matching To: Ingo Molnar , lkml Cc: Paul Mackerras , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Steven Rostedt , Jim Keniston , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Christoph Hellwig , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Jason Baron , "K.Prasad" , Peter Zijlstra , Srikar Dronamraju , Ulrich Drepper , Roland McGrath , Mike Galbraith , systemtap , DLE Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:27:01 -0500 Message-ID: <20100218232701.21679.5195.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> User-Agent: StGIT/0.14.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2396 Lines: 66 Hi Ingo, Here are several bugfixes and updates of perf-probe. This updates includes moving onto elfutils-libdw and the lazy line matching support which you had mentioned :-) elfutils library is developed closely with gcc team, and it is simple and fast dwarf analysis library. lazy-matching is similar to glob matching but ignoring spaces in both of target and pattern. This is updated todo list. Most of them are related to the 'type' support. Long-term TODOs (future features): - Enhance probe-finder to decode call frame instructions. - Support sys_perf_counter_open (for non-root users) - Support tracing static variables (non global) - Support variable types from debuginfo (e.g. char, int, ...) - Support fields of data structures (var->field) - Support array (var[N]) - Support dynamic array-indexing (var[var2]) - Support string/dynamic arrays (*var, var[N..M]) - Support force type-casting ((type)var) - Support the type of return value Miscs: - Better support for probes on modules - --list option shows the file-name/line-number of each events. Thank you, --- Masami Hiramatsu (9): perf probe: Add lazy line matching support perf probe: show more lines after last line perf probe: Check function address range strictly in line finder perf probe: Use libdw callback routines perf probe: Use elfutils-libdw for analyzing debuginfo perf probe: Rename probe finder functions perf probe: Fix bugs in line range finder perf probe: Update perf probe document perf probe: Do not show --line option without dwarf support tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | 58 ++ tools/perf/Makefile | 10 tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | 36 + tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 55 +- tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 994 ++++++++++++++----------------- tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h | 53 +- tools/perf/util/string.c | 55 +- tools/perf/util/string.h | 1 8 files changed, 639 insertions(+), 623 deletions(-) -- Masami Hiramatsu e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/