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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:57:31 +0100 Received: from d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.232]) by b06cxnps3075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id w62EvU0138666382 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Mon, 2 Jul 2018 14:57:30 GMT Received: from d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD28F52050; Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:57:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from linux.vnet.ibm.com (unknown [9.40.192.68]) by d06av21.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with SMTP id BF2E95204E; Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:57:11 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 07:57:27 -0700 From: Srikar Dronamraju To: Ravi Bangoria Cc: oleg@redhat.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, mhiramat@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, acme@kernel.org, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, jolsa@redhat.com, namhyung@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, alexis.berlemont@gmail.com, naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org, linux@armlinux.org.uk, ralf@linux-mips.org, paul.burton@mips.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 10/10] perf probe: Support SDT markers having reference counter (semaphore) Reply-To: Srikar Dronamraju References: <20180628052209.13056-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> <20180628052209.13056-11-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180628052209.13056-11-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 18070214-0016-0000-0000-000001E2826C X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 18070214-0017-0000-0000-00003236DB0D Message-Id: <20180702145727.GC65296@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2018-07-02_05:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1806210000 definitions=main-1807020171 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Ravi Bangoria [2018-06-28 10:52:09]: > With this, perf buildid-cache will save SDT markers with reference > counter in probe cache. Perf probe will be able to probe markers > having reference counter. Ex, > > # readelf -n /tmp/tick | grep -A1 loop2 > Name: loop2 > ... Semaphore: 0x0000000010020036 > > # ./perf buildid-cache --add /tmp/tick Would this perf buildid-cache work if the executable is stripped of symbols? > # ./perf probe sdt_tick:loop2 > # ./perf stat -e sdt_tick:loop2 /tmp/tick > hi: 0 > hi: 1 > hi: 2 > ^C > Performance counter stats for '/tmp/tick': > 3 sdt_tick:loop2 > 2.561851452 seconds time elapsed Also can we document how to use SDT markers with perf under perf-probe or perf-build-cache?