Re: [Dle-develop] [PATCH -tip tracing/kprobes 0/9] tracing/kprobes, perf: perf probe and kprobe-tracer bugfixes

[Frederic W. <fwe...@gm...>]

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 08:43:34AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> also useful for command line workflows: 'perf probe --list' output - i 
> think we users to generate func_symbol+rel_position kind of probes.
> 
> Plus a relative position is more intuitive as well. If you see 
> 'schedule+10' versus 'schedule+102', you'll know it immediate that the 
> first one is early in the function while the second one is near the end.
> 
> If you see 'schedule@2465' versus 'schedule@2555' that kind of 'where in 
> the function is the probe, roughly' subjective impression is lost.
> 
> 	Ingo


Yeah, from a probe id reading POV, that's much better.