linux/tools/perf/Documentation
Srikar Dronamraju 225466f1c2 perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes
- Enhances perf to probe user space executables and libraries.
- Enhances -F/--funcs option of "perf probe" to list possible probe points in
  an executable file or library.
- Documents userspace probing support in perf.

[ Probing a function in the executable using function name  ]
perf probe -x /bin/zsh zfree

[ Probing a library function using function name ]
perf probe -x /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc

[ list probe-able functions in an executable ]
perf probe -F -x /bin/zsh

[ list probe-able functions in an library]
perf probe -F -x /lib/libc.so.6

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120416120909.30661.99781.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2012-05-11 13:58:17 -03:00
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asciidoc.conf perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
examples.txt mm-tracepoint: fix documentation and examples 2012-01-10 16:30:41 -08:00
Makefile perf doc: Allow producing documentation in a specified output directory 2012-02-06 19:16:03 -02:00
manpage-1.72.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-base.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-bold-literal.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-normal.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
manpage-suppress-sp.xsl perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
perf-annotate.txt perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
perf-archive.txt perf archive: Add documentation 2010-01-20 08:54:58 +01:00
perf-bench.txt perf tools: Fixup minor doc formatting issues 2010-05-05 11:23:27 -03:00
perf-buildid-cache.txt perf man pages: Fix cut'n'paste error 2010-07-28 11:30:10 -03:00
perf-buildid-list.txt perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
perf-diff.txt perf symbols: Add symfs option for off-box analysis using specified tree 2010-12-21 20:17:51 -02:00
perf-evlist.txt perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
perf-help.txt perf_counter tools: Move from Documentation/perf_counter/ to tools/perf/ 2009-06-06 20:33:43 +02:00
perf-inject.txt perf inject: Add missing bits 2010-05-04 10:48:22 -03:00
perf-kmem.txt perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
perf-kvm.txt perf kvm: Document missing options 2010-12-01 18:22:46 -02:00
perf-list.txt perf tools: Add support for guest/host-only profiling 2012-01-06 15:49:49 -02:00
perf-lock.txt perf lock: Document lock info subcommand 2012-01-30 18:30:48 -02:00
perf-probe.txt perf probe: Provide perf interface for uprobes 2012-05-11 13:58:17 -03:00
perf-record.txt perf record: Provide default branch stack sampling mode option 2012-03-09 08:26:07 +01:00
perf-report.txt perf report: Add a simple GTK2-based 'perf report' browser 2012-03-19 15:13:29 -03:00
perf-sched.txt perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
perf-script-perl.txt sched: Get rid of lock_depth 2011-04-24 13:18:38 +02:00
perf-script-python.txt sched: Get rid of lock_depth 2011-04-24 13:18:38 +02:00
perf-script.txt perf script: Add option resolving vmlinux path 2012-01-30 18:13:07 -02:00
perf-stat.txt perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top 2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
perf-test.txt perf test: Allow running just a subset of the available tests 2011-11-29 14:04:35 -02:00
perf-timechart.txt perf report: Accept fifos as input file 2011-12-23 17:01:03 -02:00
perf-top.txt perf tools: Allow multiple threads or processes in record, stat, top 2012-02-13 22:54:11 -02:00
perf.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00
perfconfig.example perf annotate: Allow printing objdump line addr in different color 2012-04-07 16:09:05 -03:00