From 73317b954041031249e8968d2e9023ff4e960d99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 15:57:35 -0400 Subject: perf probe: Support "string" type Support string type casting to event argument. If perf-probe finds an argument casted as string, it ensures the target variable is "(unsigned/signed) char *(or []). perf-probe also adds dereference if the target is a pointer. So, both of 'char buf[10];' and 'char *buf;' can be accessed by 'buf:string' Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <20100519195734.2885.1666.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation') diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt index ea531d9d975c..394016d33ce3 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ Each probe argument follows below syntax. [NAME=]LOCALVAR|$retval|%REG|@SYMBOL[:TYPE] 'NAME' specifies the name of this argument (optional). You can use the name of local variable, local data structure member (e.g. var->field, var.field2), or kprobe-tracer argument format (e.g. $retval, %ax, etc). Note that the name of this argument will be set as the last member name if you specify a local data structure member (e.g. field2 for 'var->field1.field2'.) -'TYPE' casts the type of this argument (optional). If omitted, perf probe automatically set the type based on debuginfo. +'TYPE' casts the type of this argument (optional). If omitted, perf probe automatically set the type based on debuginfo. You can specify 'string' type only for the local variable or structure member which is an array of or a pointer to 'char' or 'unsigned char' type. LINE SYNTAX ----------- -- cgit v1.2.3