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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2010-04-12 13:17:15 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-04-14 17:27:56 -0300
commit4984912eb23113a4007940cd09c8351c0623ea5f (patch)
tree81e725def8479b4f4c7d7114f30df690784864c1 /tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
parenttracing/kprobes: Support basic types on dynamic events (diff)
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perf probe: Query basic types from debuginfo
Query the basic type information (byte-size and signed-flag) from debuginfo and pass that to kprobe-tracer. This is especially useful for tracing the members of data structure, because each member has different byte-size on the memory. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100412171715.3790.23730.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/util/probe-event.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/probe-event.c9
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 19de8b77973d..05ca4a959e60 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -740,6 +740,13 @@ static int synthesize_kprobe_trace_arg(struct kprobe_trace_arg *arg,
buf += ret;
buflen -= ret;
}
+ /* Print argument type */
+ if (arg->type) {
+ ret = e_snprintf(buf, buflen, ":%s", arg->type);
+ if (ret <= 0)
+ return ret;
+ buf += ret;
+ }
return buf - tmp;
}
@@ -848,6 +855,8 @@ void clear_kprobe_trace_event(struct kprobe_trace_event *tev)
free(tev->args[i].name);
if (tev->args[i].value)
free(tev->args[i].value);
+ if (tev->args[i].type)
+ free(tev->args[i].type);
ref = tev->args[i].ref;
while (ref) {
next = ref->next;