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From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>,
	namhyung@kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH perf/core  2/2] perf-probe: Check the orphaned -x option
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2015 13:11:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150401111104.GA1326@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150401102541.17137.75477.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:25:42PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> To avoid probing in unintended binary, the orphaned -x option
> must be checked and warned.
> 
> Without this patch, following command sets up the probe in
> the kernel.
>   -----
>   # perf probe -a strcpy -x ./perf
>   Added new event:
>     probe:strcpy         (on strcpy)
> 
>   You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
> 
>           perf record -e probe:strcpy -aR sleep 1
>   -----
> 
> But in this case, it seems that the user may want to probe
> in the perf binary. With this patch, perf-probe correctly
> handles the orphaned -x.
>   -----
>   # perf probe -a strcpy -x ./perf
>     Error: -x/-m must follow the probe definitions.
>   ...
>   -----
> 
> Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>

works nicely, thanks a lot!

Tested-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>

jirka

  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-01 11:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-30 17:46 [RFC] perf probe: -x option position issue Jiri Olsa
2015-03-30 19:48 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-03-31  8:04   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-03-31 13:33     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-04-01  8:37       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-04-01 10:25       ` [PATCH perf/core 1/2] perf-probe: Support multiple probes on different binaries Masami Hiramatsu
2015-04-11  6:37         ` [tip:perf/core] perf probe: " tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
2015-04-01 10:25       ` [PATCH perf/core 2/2] perf-probe: Check the orphaned -x option Masami Hiramatsu
2015-04-01 11:11         ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2015-04-10  6:51         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-04-10 13:22           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2015-04-11  6:38         ` [tip:perf/core] perf probe: " tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu

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