perf tools: allow user to specify hardware breakpoint bp_len

Currently bp_len is given a default value of 4. Allow user to override it:

  $ perf stat -e mem:0x1000/8
                            ^
                            bp_len

If no value is given, it will default to 4 as it did before.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Shin <jacob.w.shin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: xiakaixu <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Jacob Shin
2014-05-29 17:26:51 +02:00
committed by Frederic Weisbecker
parent d6d55f0b9d
commit 3741eb9f8c
5 changed files with 42 additions and 15 deletions

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@@ -33,12 +33,15 @@ OPTIONS
- a raw PMU event (eventsel+umask) in the form of rNNN where NNN is a
hexadecimal event descriptor.
- a hardware breakpoint event in the form of '\mem:addr[:access]'
- a hardware breakpoint event in the form of '\mem:addr[/len][:access]'
where addr is the address in memory you want to break in.
Access is the memory access type (read, write, execute) it can
be passed as follows: '\mem:addr[:[r][w][x]]'.
be passed as follows: '\mem:addr[:[r][w][x]]'. len is the range,
number of bytes from specified addr, which the breakpoint will cover.
If you want to profile read-write accesses in 0x1000, just set
'mem:0x1000:rw'.
If you want to profile write accesses in [0x1000~1008), just set
'mem:0x1000/8:w'.
--filter=<filter>::
Event filter.