From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:42:35 +0000 (+0100) Subject: perf tools: Add support for breakpoint events in perf tools X-Git-Tag: v2.6.33-rc1~399^2~94 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1b290d670ffa883b7e062177463a8efd00eaa2c1;p=pandora-kernel.git perf tools: Add support for breakpoint events in perf tools Add the breakpoint events support with this new sysnopsis: mem:addr[:access] Where addr is a raw addr value in the kernel and access can be either [r][w][x] Example to profile tasklist_lock: $ grep tasklist_lock /proc/kallsyms ffffffff8189c000 D tasklist_lock $ perf record -e mem:0xffffffff8189c000:rw -a -f -c 1 $ perf report # Samples: 62 # # Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol # ........ ............... ............. ...... # 29.03% swapper [kernel] [k] _raw_read_trylock 29.03% swapper [kernel] [k] _raw_read_unlock 19.35% init [kernel] [k] _raw_read_trylock 19.35% init [kernel] [k] _raw_read_unlock 1.61% events/0 [kernel] [k] _raw_read_trylock 1.61% events/0 [kernel] [k] _raw_read_unlock Coming soon: - Support for symbols in the event definition. - Default period to 1 for breakpoint events because these are not high frequency events. The same thing is needed for trace events. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Prasad LKML-Reference: <1258987355-8751-4-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Prasad --- Reading git-diff-tree failed