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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h
index 10411f596321..a393a3f87cd0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ struct kprobe_trace_arg_ref {
 struct kprobe_trace_arg {
         char                            *name;  /* Argument name */
         char                            *value; /* Base value */
+        char                            *type;  /* Type name */
         struct kprobe_trace_arg_ref     *ref;   /* Referencing offset */
 };