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 <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20100316220626.32050.57552.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h
index 2a2f0a2..cd308b0 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.h
@@ -45,9 +45,17 @@
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 @@
/* 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);