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Commit 9aaf5a5f authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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perf probe: Check kprobes blacklist when adding new events



Recent linux kernel provides a blacklist of the functions which can not
be probed. perf probe can now check this blacklist before setting new
events and indicate better error message for users.

Without this patch,
  ----
  # perf probe --add vmalloc_fault
  Added new event:
  Failed to write event: Invalid argument
    Error: Failed to add events.
  ----
With this patch
  ----
  # perf probe --add vmalloc_fault
  Added new event:
  Warning: Skipped probing on blacklisted function: vmalloc_fault
  ----

Reported-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150219143113.14434.5387.stgit@localhost.localdomain


Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 55d43bca
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