From 7df2f32956cf0f1a45df38cd0e0fe0c3467580e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:06:26 -0400 Subject: perf probe: Add data structure member access support Support accessing members in the data structures. With this, perf-probe accepts data-structure members(IOW, it now accepts dot '.' and arrow '->' operators) as probe arguemnts. e.g. ./perf probe --add 'schedule:44 rq->curr' ./perf probe --add 'vfs_read file->f_op->read file->f_path.dentry' Note that '>' can be interpreted as redirection in command-line. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: systemtap Cc: DLE Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra LKML-Reference: <20100316220626.32050.57552.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- tools/perf/util/probe-event.h | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tools/perf/util/probe-event.h') diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h index 2a2f0a26dc67..cd308b0a4d96 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h @@ -45,9 +45,17 @@ struct perf_probe_point { bool retprobe; /* Return probe flag */ }; +/* Perf probe probing argument field chain */ +struct perf_probe_arg_field { + struct perf_probe_arg_field *next; /* Next field */ + char *name; /* Name of the field */ + bool ref; /* Referencing flag */ +}; + /* Perf probe probing argument */ struct perf_probe_arg { - char *name; /* Argument name */ + char *name; /* Argument name */ + struct perf_probe_arg_field *field; /* Structure fields */ }; /* Perf probe probing event (point + arg) */ @@ -86,6 +94,8 @@ extern void parse_kprobe_trace_command(const char *cmd, /* Events to command string */ extern char *synthesize_perf_probe_command(struct perf_probe_event *pev); extern char *synthesize_kprobe_trace_command(struct kprobe_trace_event *tev); +extern int synthesize_perf_probe_arg(struct perf_probe_arg *pa, char *buf, + size_t len); /* Check the perf_probe_event needs debuginfo */ extern bool perf_probe_event_need_dwarf(struct perf_probe_event *pev); -- cgit v1.2.2