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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2010-03-16 18:06:05 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-03-17 11:32:31 +0100
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parentperf probe: Introduce die_find_child() function (diff)
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perf probe: Add --dry-run option
Add --dry-run option for debugging and testing. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com> Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20100316220605.32050.6571.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ OPTIONS
--force::
Forcibly add events with existing name.
+-n::
+--dry-run::
+ Dry run. With this option, --add and --del doesn't execute actual
+ adding and removal operations.
+
PROBE SYNTAX
------------
Probe points are defined by following syntax.