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

From: Ravi Bangoria
Date: Wed Dec 06 2017 - 23:43:02 EST


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@file"
> 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?

Thanks,
Ravi