Re: [PATCH v3 5/5] perf/sdt: Add support to perf record to trace SDT events

[Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>]

(2014/10/22 17:20), Hemant Kumar wrote:
>>> From "file_sdt_ent" we will find out the file name.
>>> Convert this sdt note into a perf event and then write this into uprobe_events
>>> file to be able to record the event.
>>> Then, corresponding entries are added to uprobe_events file for
>>> the SDT events.
>>> After recording is done, these events are silently deleted from uprobe_events
>>> file. The uprobe_events file is present in debugfs/tracing directory.
>>>
>>> To support the addition and deletion of SDT events to/from uprobe_events
>>> file, a record_sdt struct is maintained which has the event data.
>> OK, I have some comments on this.
>>
>>> An example usage:
>>>
>>> # ./perf record -e %user_app:fun_start -aR /home/user_app
>> At first, I'd like to add SDT support for adding probes too, like below;
>>
>> ./perf probe -a '%user_app:fun_start $vars'
> 
> But I think, previously we discussed that we won't be having "perf 
> probe" for SDT events.
> We list them and probe/trace them using "perf record" directly.

Right, sorry for confusing you. I meant that I'd like to support SDT on both of
perf-record and perf-probe :)
And even if we'll hide sdt related events via perf, users can access it via ftrace.
So, I doubt that we can completely hide them, in that case, honesty is the best way;)

Thank you,


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Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com