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authorHe Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>2015-05-11 12:25:03 +0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2015-05-12 15:59:50 +0300
commit349e8d2611316cce11c0b9d0830ebb585c9b82b8 (patch)
treeb985e93cd47f709e010eac3290bee3dbc3dba9d2 /tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
parentfb9596d1731cc37da6489de439f8b876f3a12db2 (diff)
downloadlinux-349e8d2611316cce11c0b9d0830ebb585c9b82b8.tar.xz
perf probe: Add --range option to show a variable's location range
It is not easy for users to get the accurate byte offset or the line number where a local variable can be probed. With '--range' option, local variables in the scope of the probe point are showed with a byte offset range, and can be added according to this range information. For example, there are some variables in the function generic_perform_write(): <generic_perform_write@mm/filemap.c:0> 0 ssize_t generic_perform_write(struct file *file, 1 struct iov_iter *i, loff_t pos) 2 { 3 struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping; 4 const struct address_space_operations *a_ops = mapping->a_ops; ... 42 status = a_ops->write_begin(file, mapping, pos, bytes, flags, &page, &fsdata); 44 if (unlikely(status < 0)) But we fail when we try to probe the variable 'a_ops' at line 42 or 44. $ perf probe --add 'generic_perform_write:42 a_ops' Failed to find the location of a_ops at this address. Perhaps, it has been optimized out. This is because the source code do not match the assembly, so a variable may not be available in the source code line where it appears. After this patch, we can lookup the accurate byte offset range of a variable, 'INV' indicates that this variable is not valid at the given point, but available in the scope: $ perf probe --vars 'generic_perform_write:42' --range Available variables at generic_perform_write:42 @<generic_perform_write+141> [INV] ssize_t written @<generic_perform_write+[324-331]> [INV] struct address_space_operations* a_ops @<generic_perform_write+[55-61,170-176,223-246]> [VAL] (unknown_type) fsdata @<generic_perform_write+[70-307,346-411]> [VAL] loff_t pos @<generic_perform_write+[0-286,286-336,346-411]> [VAL] long int status @<generic_perform_write+[83-342,346-411]> [VAL] long unsigned int bytes @<generic_perform_write+[122-311,320-338,346-403,403-411]> [VAL] struct address_space* mapping @<generic_perform_write+[35-344,346-411]> [VAL] struct iov_iter* i @<generic_perform_write+[0-340,346-411]> [VAL] struct page* page @<generic_perform_write+[70-307,346-411]> Then it is more clear for us to add a probe with this variable: $ perf probe --add 'generic_perform_write+170 a_ops' Added new event: probe:generic_perform_write (on generic_perform_write+170 with a_ops) Signed-off-by: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1431336304-16863-2-git-send-email-hekuang@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
index 7fa2c7a1086a..1272559fa22d 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
@@ -372,6 +372,8 @@ __cmd_probe(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
"Show accessible variables on PROBEDEF", opt_show_vars),
OPT_BOOLEAN('\0', "externs", &probe_conf.show_ext_vars,
"Show external variables too (with --vars only)"),
+ OPT_BOOLEAN('\0', "range", &probe_conf.show_location_range,
+ "Show variables location range in scope (with --vars only)"),
OPT_STRING('k', "vmlinux", &symbol_conf.vmlinux_name,
"file", "vmlinux pathname"),
OPT_STRING('s', "source", &symbol_conf.source_prefix,