linux-kernel - Re: perf probe -F with wildcards

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Message-ID: <20160715131439.GE3021@kernel.org>
Date:	Fri, 15 Jul 2016 10:14:39 -0300
From:	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc:	Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <daniel@...stot.me>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: perf probe -F with wildcards

Em Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 04:15:48PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu escreveu:
> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:16:41 -0300
> Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org> wrote:
 
> > 	I think this worked at some point?

> > [root@...et acme]# perf probe -F | tail
> > zswap_frontswap_init
> > zswap_frontswap_invalidate_area
> > zswap_frontswap_invalidate_page
> > zswap_frontswap_load
> > zswap_frontswap_store
> > zswap_pool_create
> > zswap_pool_current
> > zswap_update_total_size
> > zswap_writeback_entry
> > zswap_zpool_param_set
> > [root@...et acme]# perf probe -F rt_sp*
> > no symbols found in [kernel.kallsyms], maybe install a debug package?
> > Failed to load symbols in kernel
 
> It seems that 2 problems we have,
> - There is no function which starts with rt_sp.

Yeah, that is the problem at hand, I figured there weren't functions
liek that, but the error message was tottally misleading :-)

> - The error message is not good for that.
> If you try perf probe -F acpi_*, you'll see a list of functions.
> 
> > [root@...et acme]# perf probe -F rt_sp\*
> > no symbols found in [kernel.kallsyms], maybe install a debug package?
> > Failed to load symbols in kernel
> 
> So, yeah, it should check symbol loading is really failed and should be
> changed as "no symbols match to given filter" etc.

Right,

- Arnaldo