Re: [PATCH tracing/kprobes v3 6/7] perf: Add perf probe subcommandfor kprobe-event setup helper

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Thu Oct 08 2009 - 17:19:21 EST


On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:17:34PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Add perf probe subcommand for kprobe-event setup helper to perf command.
>> This allows user to define kprobe events by C expressions (C line numbers,
>> C function names, and C local variables).
>>
>> Usage
>> -----
>> perf probe [<options>] -P 'PROBEDEF' [-P 'PROBEDEF' ...]
>>
>> -k, --vmlinux<file> vmlinux/module pathname
>> -P, --probe<p|r:[GRP/]NAME FUNC[+OFFS][@SRC]|@SRC:LINE [ARG ...]>
>> probe point definition, where
>> p: kprobe probe
>> r: kretprobe probe
>> GRP: Group name (optional)
>> NAME: Event name
>> FUNC: Function name
>> OFFS: Offset from function entry (in byte)
>> SRC: Source code path
>> LINE: Line number
>> ARG: Probe argument (local variable name or
>> kprobe-tracer argument format is supported.)
>
> Oops, I found it caused compilation error on gcc < 4.4 as below:
>
> CC builtin-trace.o
> CC builtin-probe.o
> cc1: warnings being treated as errors
> builtin-probe.c: In function 'parse_probepoint':
> builtin-probe.c:109: error: implicit declaration of function 'strndup'
> builtin-probe.c:109: error: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'strndup'
>
> Since I forgot to add _GNU_SOURCE...
>


No problem, I can add it, or rather include util/util.h as it includes
everything necessary for the string functions + _GNU_SOURCE :)

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