Re: [Dle-develop] [PATCH tracing/kprobes v2 0/5] tracing/kprobes, perf: perf probe support take 2

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Masami Hiramatsu <mhi...@re...> writes:

> [...]
> These patches introduce 'perf probe' command and update kprobe-tracer. [...]
> Usage
> -----
>  perf probe [<options>] -P 'PROBEDEF' [-P 'PROBEDEF' ...]
> [...]
>     -k, --vmlinux <file>  vmlinux/module pathname
>     -r, --release <rel>   kernel release
> [...]

Can you outline a reason for the -r flag?  We use it in systemtap for
cross-compiling purposes, but I didn't think perf was interested in that.

- FChE