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From: Benjamin King <benjaminking@web.de>
Subject: Re: perf probe an addr without debuginfo
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 17:46:51 +0200
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Hi Brendan

>Is there a trick to getting perf to probe a user-level address without
>debuginfo? Eg (on Linux 4.0):
>[...]
>I can do this using ftrace ok, eg, "p:tick_0x583 /root/tick:0x583"
>works. Thanks,

Not quite what you have asked for, but you can add the probe via ftrace and
then use it from perf. Probes from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events
will show up in 'perf list' as well.

Cheers,
  Benjamin