Re: [PATCH] tracing/kprobes: allow to create probe with a module name starting with a digit

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 10:07:45 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jun 2017 17:38:30 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:24:42 +0200
> > Sabrina Dubroca <sd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> 
> Thanks Masami,
> 
> I can take this. Should this go to stable?

Yes, it should go to stable. 

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>