(2012/04/13 0:10), Srikar Dronamraju wrote: >> $ perf probe libc malloc >> >> Makes it even easier to use. >> >> Its just when one asks for something that has ambiguities that >> the tool should ask the user to be a bit more precise to remove such >> ambiguity. >> >> After all... >> > > Another case > perf probe do_fork clone_flags now looks for variable clone_flags in > kernel function do_fork. > > But if we allow to trace perf probe zsh zfree; then > 'perf probe do_fork clone_flags' should it check for do_fork executable > or not? If it does check and finds one, and searches for clone_flags > function and doesnt find, then should it continue with searching the > kernel? > Agree. I'd like to suggest you to start with only full path support, and see, how we can handle abbreviations :) Thank you, -- Masami HIRAMATSU Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>