Re: [PATCH tracing/kprobes v2 0/5] tracing/kprobes, perf: perf probesupport take 2

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Mon Oct 05 2009 - 11:08:46 EST


Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
Masami Hiramatsu<mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

[...]
These patches introduce 'perf probe' command and update kprobe-tracer. [...]
Usage
-----
perf probe [<options>] -P 'PROBEDEF' [-P 'PROBEDEF' ...]
[...]
-k, --vmlinux<file> vmlinux/module pathname
-r, --release<rel> kernel release
[...]

Can you outline a reason for the -r flag? We use it in systemtap for
cross-compiling purposes, but I didn't think perf was interested in that.

Indeed, thanks!
I just forgot to remove -r option from the code of c2kpe.c :(

--
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx

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