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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2011-02-10 18:08:10 +0900
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2011-02-16 17:03:23 -0200
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parentperf tools: Update Makefile with some help (diff)
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perf probe: Support function@filename syntax for --line
Since "perf probe --add" supports function@filename syntax, --line option should also support it. Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Franck Bui-Huu <fbuihuu@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org LKML-Reference: <20110210090810.1809.26913.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index 81c3220e04f3..02bafce4b341 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ or
or
'perf probe' --list
or
-'perf probe' [options] --line='FUNC[:RLN[+NUM|:RLN2]]|SRC:ALN[+NUM|:ALN2]'
+'perf probe' [options] --line='LINE'
or
'perf probe' [options] --vars='PROBEPOINT'
@@ -128,13 +128,14 @@ LINE SYNTAX
-----------
Line range is described by following syntax.
- "FUNC[:RLN[+NUM|-RLN2]]|SRC[:ALN[+NUM|-ALN2]]"
+ "FUNC[@SRC][:RLN[+NUM|-RLN2]]|SRC[:ALN[+NUM|-ALN2]]"
FUNC specifies the function name of showing lines. 'RLN' is the start line
number from function entry line, and 'RLN2' is the end line number. As same as
probe syntax, 'SRC' means the source file path, 'ALN' is start line number,
and 'ALN2' is end line number in the file. It is also possible to specify how
-many lines to show by using 'NUM'.
+many lines to show by using 'NUM'. Moreover, 'FUNC@SRC' combination is good
+for searching a specific function when several functions share same name.
So, "source.c:100-120" shows lines between 100th to l20th in source.c file. And "func:10+20" shows 20 lines from 10th line of func function.
LAZY MATCHING