Hi Arnaldo, On Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:58:57 -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: > Em Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 12:08:59PM +0900, Namhyung Kim escreveu: >> I prefer this too. But I'd like make the 'add' part a subcommand rather >> than option like we do in perf kmem/kvm/list/lock/mem/sched ... And it >> can handle multiple files at once. What about this? > >> perf cache add [--elf|--sdt|--probe <spec>] <binary> [<binary>...] > > In the end we can have it both ways, i.e. if the user does just: > > perf cache add something > > or: > > perf cache add --elf something > > And 'something' is an ELF file, then in the first case (no --elf > specified) it will figure it out (checking the magic number, etc) and do > the right thing. > > In the second case since we're being more verbose and think we know what > 'something' is (an ELF file) the tool can check if it indeed is an ELF > file and if not, bail out.
Ah, that's possible. I'm not sure what we can do if it's not an ELF file though. :) Thanks, Namhyung -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
