From cd7e7bd5e44718c7625ce1e1f0fda53d77cd3797 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:35:42 -0400 Subject: tracing: Add kprobes event profiling interface MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Add profiling interfaces for each kprobes event. This interface provides how many times each probe hit or missed. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jason Baron Cc: Jim Keniston Cc: K.Prasad Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Sam Ravnborg Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Tom Zanussi Cc: Vegard Nossum LKML-Reference: <20090813203541.31965.8452.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker --- Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation/trace') diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt index 5e59e854e71..3de75174716 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt @@ -70,6 +70,14 @@ filter: names and field names for describing filters. +Event Profiling +--------------- + You can check the total number of probe hits and probe miss-hits via +/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_profile. + The first column is event name, the second is the number of probe hits, +the third is the number of probe miss-hits. + + Usage examples -------------- To add a probe as a new event, write a new definition to kprobe_events -- cgit v1.2.3