Messages in this thread |  | | From | Namhyung Kim <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] perf-cache command interface design | Date | Mon, 17 Nov 2014 12:08:59 +0900 |
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Hi Masami,
On Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:25:57 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > (2014/11/11 22:10), Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: >> What I meant was, what is wrong with replacing: >> >> perf cache --probe <SPEC> # for the current kernel >> >> With: >> >> perf cache --add <PROBE-SPEC> # for the current kernel >> >> And have it figure out that what is being added is a probe and do the >> right thing? > > As I've said previously, PROBE-SPEC can be same as FILES (imagine that a binary > file which has same name function in the kernel.) > Moreover, PROBE-SPEC requires the target binary(or kernel module) except for > kernel probes. In that case, anyway we need -x or -m options with file-path > for --add, that is very strange. > > e.g. > > For me, > > perf cache --add ./binary --probe '*' > > looks more natural than > > perf cache --add '*' -exec ./binary > > since in other cases(sdt/elf), we'll just do > > perf cache --add ./binary
I prefer this too. But I'd like make the 'add' part a subcommand rather than option like we do in perf kmem/kvm/list/lock/mem/sched ... And it can handle multiple files at once. What about this?
perf cache add [--elf|--sdt|--probe <spec>] <binary> [<binary>...]
Thanks, Namhyung
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