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Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:40:37 +0530
From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] perf/probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes
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>  $ perf probe libc malloc
> 
> 	Makes it even easier to use.
> 
> 	Its just when one asks for something that has ambiguities that
> the tool should ask the user to be a bit more precise to remove such
> ambiguity.
> 
> 	After all...
> 

Another case 
perf probe do_fork clone_flags now looks for variable clone_flags in
kernel function do_fork.

But if we allow to trace perf probe zsh zfree; then 
'perf probe do_fork clone_flags' should it check for do_fork executable
or not? If it does check and finds one, and searches for clone_flags
function and doesnt find, then should it continue with searching the
kernel?

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar