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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2010-04-12 13:17:22 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-04-14 17:28:09 -0300
commit11a1ca3554b377d2a8a318a3cbf8ce10a7a2a8e4 (patch)
tree36483c56ee6b7148247ef6fbe349b09ee8cfcb25 /tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
parent4984912eb23113a4007940cd09c8351c0623ea5f (diff)
downloadlinux-11a1ca3554b377d2a8a318a3cbf8ce10a7a2a8e4.tar.bz2
perf probe: Support basic type casting
Add basic type casting for arguments to perf probe. This allows users to specify the actual type of arguments. Of course, if user sets invalid types, kprobe-tracer rejects that. 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: <20100412171722.3790.50372.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-finder.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c10
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
index ebeb413ac473..ab476736cbe7 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -547,7 +547,10 @@ static void convert_variable(Dwarf_Die *vr_die, struct probe_finder *pf)
&die_mem);
vr_die = &die_mem;
}
- convert_variable_type(vr_die, pf->tvar);
+ if (pf->pvar->type)
+ pf->tvar->type = xstrdup(pf->pvar->type);
+ else
+ convert_variable_type(vr_die, pf->tvar);
/* *expr will be cached in libdw. Don't free it. */
return ;
error:
@@ -560,13 +563,16 @@ error:
static void find_variable(Dwarf_Die *sp_die, struct probe_finder *pf)
{
Dwarf_Die vr_die;
- char buf[32];
+ char buf[32], *ptr;
/* TODO: Support arrays */
if (pf->pvar->name)
pf->tvar->name = xstrdup(pf->pvar->name);
else {
synthesize_perf_probe_arg(pf->pvar, buf, 32);
+ ptr = strchr(buf, ':'); /* Change type separator to _ */
+ if (ptr)
+ *ptr = '_';
pf->tvar->name = xstrdup(buf);
}