Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:07:45 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] tracing/kprobes: allow to create probe with a module name starting with a digit |
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:38:30 +0900 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:24:42 +0200 > Sabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net> wrote: > > > Always try to parse an address, since kstrtoul() will safely fail when > > given a symbol as input. If that fails (which will be the case for a > > symbol), try to parse a symbol instead. > > > > This allows creating a probe such as: > > > > p:probe/vlan_gro_receive 8021q:vlan_gro_receive+0 > > > > Which is necessary for this command to work: > > > > perf probe -m 8021q -a vlan_gro_receive > > > > Ah, I forgot that case. > Nice catch! > > Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> >
Thanks Masami,
I can take this. Should this go to stable?
-- Steve
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