On 12/07/2017 01:20 AM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > Cut off the version suffix (e.g. @GLIBC_2.2.5 etc.) from > automatic generated event name. This fixes wildcard event > adding like below case; > > ===== > # perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.25.so malloc* > Internal error: "malloc_get_state@GLIBC_2" is wrong event name. > Error: Failed to add events. > ===== > > This failure was caused by a versioned suffix symbol. > With this fix, perf probe automatically cuts the > suffix after @ as below. > > ===== > # ./perf probe -x /lib64/libc-2.25.so malloc* > Added new events: > probe_libc:malloc_printerr (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > probe_libc:malloc_consolidate (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > probe_libc:malloc_check (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > probe_libc:malloc_hook_ini (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > probe_libc:malloc (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > probe_libc:malloc_trim (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > probe_libc:malloc_usable_size (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > probe_libc:malloc_stats (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > probe_libc:malloc_info (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > probe_libc:mallochook (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > probe_libc:malloc_get_state (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > probe_libc:malloc_set_state (on malloc* in /usr/lib64/libc-2.25.so) > > You can now use it in all perf tools, such as: > > perf record -e probe_libc:malloc_set_state -aR sleep 1 > > ===== I think this will still fall over for a case where there are multiple versions of the same base symbol, like: $ nm /lib64/libc.so.6 | egrep ' sched_getaffinity' 0000000000134430 T sched_getaffinity@GLIBC_2.3.3 00000000000dcf00 T sched_getaffinity@@GLIBC_2.3.4 Should we retain the versioning string in some form? "sched_getaffinity--GLIBC_2.3.4"? Should we instead interpret the '@' symbol more flexibly, so maybe first assume it is a version string, and if not found, try to see if it's a valid "@SRC" specification? PC -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rt-users" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
