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| -rw-r--r-- | tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c index ed73d0b89ca2..e72f6cea76f7 100644 --- a/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c +++ b/tools/perf/builtin-probe.c @@ -383,9 +383,18 @@ static int perf_add_probe_events(struct perf_probe_event *pevs, int npevs) /* Note that it is possible to skip all events because of blacklist */ if (event) { +#ifndef HAVE_LIBTRACEEVENT + pr_info("\nperf is not linked with libtraceevent, to use the new probe you can use tracefs:\n\n"); + pr_info("\tcd /sys/kernel/tracing/\n"); + pr_info("\techo 1 > events/%s/%s/enable\n", group, event); + pr_info("\techo 1 > tracing_on\n"); + pr_info("\tcat trace_pipe\n"); + pr_info("\tBefore removing the probe, echo 0 > events/%s/%s/enable\n", group, event); +#else /* Show how to use the event. */ pr_info("\nYou can now use it in all perf tools, such as:\n\n"); pr_info("\tperf record -e %s:%s -aR sleep 1\n\n", group, event); +#endif } out_cleanup: |