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>
This commit is contained in:
Masami Hiramatsu
2010-04-12 13:17:22 -04:00
committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent 4984912eb2
commit 11a1ca3554
4 changed files with 33 additions and 4 deletions

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@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ static void parse_perf_probe_point(char *arg, struct perf_probe_event *pev)
}
/* Parse perf-probe event argument */
static void parse_perf_probe_arg(const char *str, struct perf_probe_arg *arg)
static void parse_perf_probe_arg(char *str, struct perf_probe_arg *arg)
{
char *tmp;
struct perf_probe_arg_field **fieldp;
@ -445,9 +445,17 @@ static void parse_perf_probe_arg(const char *str, struct perf_probe_arg *arg)
tmp = strchr(str, '=');
if (tmp) {
arg->name = xstrndup(str, tmp - str);
pr_debug("name:%s ", arg->name);
str = tmp + 1;
}
tmp = strchr(str, ':');
if (tmp) { /* Type setting */
*tmp = '\0';
arg->type = xstrdup(tmp + 1);
pr_debug("type:%s ", arg->type);
}
tmp = strpbrk(str, "-.");
if (!is_c_varname(str) || !tmp) {
/* A variable, register, symbol or special value */
@ -603,6 +611,15 @@ int synthesize_perf_probe_arg(struct perf_probe_arg *pa, char *buf, size_t len)
len -= ret;
field = field->next;
}
if (pa->type) {
ret = e_snprintf(tmp, len, ":%s", pa->type);
if (ret <= 0)
goto error;
tmp += ret;
len -= ret;
}
return tmp - buf;
error:
die("Failed to synthesize perf probe argument: %s", strerror(-ret));
@ -825,6 +842,8 @@ void clear_perf_probe_event(struct perf_probe_event *pev)
free(pev->args[i].name);
if (pev->args[i].var)
free(pev->args[i].var);
if (pev->args[i].type)
free(pev->args[i].type);
field = pev->args[i].field;
while (field) {
next = field->next;
@ -1145,6 +1164,8 @@ static int convert_to_kprobe_trace_events(struct perf_probe_event *pev,
if (pev->args[i].name)
tev->args[i].name = xstrdup(pev->args[i].name);
tev->args[i].value = xstrdup(pev->args[i].var);
if (pev->args[i].type)
tev->args[i].type = xstrdup(pev->args[i].type);
}
}