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>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index 05ca4a9..bef2805 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@
}
/* 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 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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 @@
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);
}
}