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>
This commit is contained in:
Masami Hiramatsu
2010-04-12 13:17:15 -04:00
committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 93ccae7a22
commit 4984912eb2
3 changed files with 80 additions and 8 deletions

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@@ -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;