From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> I.e. support tracing just tracepoints, without strace like raw_syscalls:*.
[acme@ssdandy linux]$ trace --no-sys --ev sched:*exec,sched:*switch,sched:*exit usleep 1 0.048 ( ): sched:sched_process_exec:filename=/usr/bin/usleep pid=27298 old_pid=27298) 0.369 ( ): sched:sched_switch:usleep:27298 [120] S ==> swapper/5:0 [120]) 0.452 ( ): sched:sched_process_exit:comm=usleep pid=27298 prio=120) [acme@ssdandy linux]$ TODO: remove that (...) thing when --no-syscalls is specified. Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hun...@intel.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <b...@suse.de> Cc: David Ahern <dsah...@gmail.com> Cc: Don Zickus <dzic...@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efa...@gmx.de> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Stephane Eranian <eran...@google.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vn0hsixsbhm31b2rpj97r...@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <a...@redhat.com> --- tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c index a44ac9336219..b1c1df9bfb26 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c @@ -2625,7 +2625,8 @@ int cmd_trace(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused) if (trace.summary_only) trace.summary = trace.summary_only; - if (!trace.trace_syscalls && !trace.trace_pgfaults) { + if (!trace.trace_syscalls && !trace.trace_pgfaults && + trace.evlist->nr_entries == 0 /* Was --events used? */) { pr_err("Please specify something to trace.\n"); return -1; } -- 1.9.3 -- 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/