On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 06:15:37PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> perf buildid-cache --add <binary> scans given binary and add
> the SDT events to probe cache. It is possible to use the cached
> SDT events as other cached events (perf probe <provider>:<event>=<event>).
That means lookup the cached SDT events only using event name, right?
What if same event names are used by more than one providers?
>
> e.g.
> ----
> # perf buildid-cache --add /lib/libc-2.17.so
> # perf probe --cache --list | head -n 5
> /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so (a6fb821bdf53660eb2c29f778757aef294d3d392):
> libc:setjmp=setjmp
> libc:longjmp=longjmp
> libc:longjmp_target=longjmp_target
> libc:memory_heap_new=memory_heap_new
I expected something like this instead..
libc:memory_heap_new=new_heap+183
Thanks,
Namhyung
> # perf probe -x /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so \
> -a libc:memory_heap_new=memory_heap_new
> Added new event:
> libc:memory_heap_new (on memory_heap_new
> in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so)
>
> You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:
>
> perf record -e libc:memory_heap_new -aR sleep 1
>
> # perf probe -l
> libc:memory_heap_new (on new_heap+183 in /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so)
> ----
>
> Note that SDT event entries in probe-cache file is somewhat different
> from normal cached events. Normal one starts with "#", but SDTs are
> starting with "%".
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com>
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