Merge branch 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull perf fixes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Mostly tooling fixes, plus two uncore-PMU fixes, an uprobes fix, a
  perf-cgroups fix and an AUX events fix"

* 'perf-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Add enable_box for client MSR uncore
  perf/x86/intel/uncore: Fix uncore num_counters
  uprobes/x86: Fix RIP-relative handling of EVEX-encoded instructions
  perf/core: Set cgroup in CPU contexts for new cgroup events
  perf/core: Fix sideband list-iteration vs. event ordering NULL pointer deference crash
  perf probe ppc64le: Fix probe location when using DWARF
  perf probe: Add function to post process kernel trace events
  tools: Sync cpufeatures headers with the kernel
  toops: Sync tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h with the kernel
  tools: Sync cpufeatures.h and vmx.h with the kernel
  perf probe: Support signedness casting
  perf stat: Avoid skew when reading events
  perf probe: Fix module name matching
  perf probe: Adjust map->reloc offset when finding kernel symbol from map
  perf hists: Trim libtraceevent trace_seq buffers
  perf script: Add 'bpf-output' field to usage message

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index 736da44596e4..b303bcdd8ed1 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -176,10 +176,18 @@ Each probe argument follows below syntax.
 
 'NAME' specifies the name of this argument (optional). You can use the name of local variable, local data structure member (e.g. var->field, var.field2), local array with fixed index (e.g. array[1], var->array[0], var->pointer[2]), or kprobe-tracer argument format (e.g. $retval, %ax, etc). Note that the name of this argument will be set as the last member name if you specify a local data structure member (e.g. field2 for 'var->field1.field2'.)
 '$vars' and '$params' special arguments are also available for NAME, '$vars' is expanded to the local variables (including function parameters) which can access at given probe point. '$params' is expanded to only the function parameters.
-'TYPE' casts the type of this argument (optional). If omitted, perf probe automatically set the type based on debuginfo. You can specify 'string' type only for the local variable or structure member which is an array of or a pointer to 'char' or 'unsigned char' type.
+'TYPE' casts the type of this argument (optional). If omitted, perf probe automatically set the type based on debuginfo. Currently, basic types (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), signedness casting (u/s), "string" and bitfield are supported. (see TYPES for detail)
 
 On x86 systems %REG is always the short form of the register: for example %AX. %RAX or %EAX is not valid.
 
+TYPES
+-----
+Basic types (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64) are integer types. Prefix 's' and 'u' means those types are signed and unsigned respectively. Traced arguments are shown in decimal (signed) or hex (unsigned). You can also use 's' or 'u' to specify only signedness and leave its size auto-detected by perf probe.
+String type is a special type, which fetches a "null-terminated" string from kernel space. This means it will fail and store NULL if the string container has been paged out. You can specify 'string' type only for the local variable or structure member which is an array of or a pointer to 'char' or 'unsigned char' type.
+Bitfield is another special type, which takes 3 parameters, bit-width, bit-offset, and container-size (usually 32). The syntax is;
+
+ b<bit-width>@<bit-offset>/<container-size>
+
 LINE SYNTAX
 -----------
 Line range is described by following syntax.