linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/5] perf-probe: Improve probing on versioned symbols

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Date:   Thu, 7 Dec 2017 15:11:03 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        bhargavb <bhargavaramudu@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Paul Clarke <pc@...ibm.com>,
        linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] perf-probe: Improve probing on versioned symbols

On Thu, 7 Dec 2017 10:13:28 +0530
Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hi Masami,
> 
> 
> On 12/06/2017 08:36 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > [4/5] Find versioned symbol from map without wildcard.
> >    This allows user to specify a symbol without version
> >    suffix nor wildcard. Anyway, at this point we have
> >    no way to specify version suffix, because parser
> >    recognizes "@" is a separator of "function@...e"
> >    syntax. This is fixed in next patch.
> > [5/5] Allow user to use backslash-escaped characters
> >    on command line. This has 2 effects, user can specify
> >    version suffix directly, and we can use special
> >    characters in source file.
> 
> Just a thought. Will it be good to describe / illustrate this
> in man page as well?

Good catch! I forgot that...

Thanks!


> 
> Thanks,
> Ravi
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>