From 11a1ca3554b377d2a8a318a3cbf8ce10a7a2a8e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:17:22 -0400 Subject: 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 Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <20100412171722.3790.50372.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'tools/perf/Documentation') diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt index 441324f2615d..63c25d304880 100644 --- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt +++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt @@ -85,9 +85,10 @@ PROBE ARGUMENT -------------- Each probe argument follows below syntax. - [NAME=]LOCALVAR|$retval|%REG|@SYMBOL + [NAME=]LOCALVAR|$retval|%REG|@SYMBOL[:TYPE] '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), 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'.) +'TYPE' casts the type of this argument (optional). If omitted, perf probe automatically set the type based on debuginfo. LINE SYNTAX ----------- -- cgit