perl is not universal on all machines and should be replaced with awk,
which is much more common.
Before:
$ perf test "probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping" -v
--- start ---
test child forked, pid 145431
grep: Perl matching not supported in a --disable-perl-regexp build
FAIL: could not add event
---- end(-1) ----
121: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping : FAILED!
After:
$ perf test "probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping" -v
121: probe libc's inet_pton & backtrace it with ping : Ok
Suggested-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Chun-Tse Shao <ctshao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: James Clark <james.clark@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250620174034.819894-1-ctshao@google.com
[ fold James' suggestion not to escape _ in the event pattern. ]
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
libc=$(grep -w libc /proc/self/maps | head -1 | sed -r 's/.*[[:space:]](\/.*)/\1/g')
nm -Dg $libc 2>/dev/null | grep -F -q inet_pton || exit 254
-event_pattern='probe_libc:inet_pton(\_[[:digit:]]+)?'
+event_pattern='probe_libc:inet_pton(_[[:digit:]]+)?'
add_libc_inet_pton_event() {
event_name=$(perf probe -f -x $libc -a inet_pton 2>&1 | tail -n +2 | head -n -5 | \
- grep -P -o "$event_pattern(?=[[:space:]]\(on inet_pton in $libc\))")
+ awk -v ep="$event_pattern" -v l="$libc" '$0 ~ ep && $0 ~ \
+ ("\\(on inet_pton in " l "\\)") {print $1}')
if [ $? -ne 0 ] || [ -z "$event_name" ] ; then
printf "FAIL: could not add event\n"