[RFC/PATCH] perf: Add sizeof operator support

Jeremy Linton
2016-06-14T16:38:35Z

There are a fair number of tracepoints in the kernel making
use of the sizeof operator. Allow perf to understand some of
those cases, and report a more informative error message for
the ones it cannot understand.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
---

So this is as much a RFC as a patch because the use of sizeof
seems to extend to structures, pointers, etc that aren't easy
to deduce from userspace. I'm not sure what the correct solution
should be in those cases.

tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 46 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
index a8b6357..5813248 100644
--- a/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
+++ b/tools/lib/traceevent/event-parse.c
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdint.h>
#include <limits.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>

#include <netinet/ip6.h>
#include "event-parse.h"
@@ -2868,6 +2870,46 @@ process_str(struct event_format *event __maybe_unused, struct print_arg *arg,
}

static enum event_type
+process_sizeof(struct event_format *event __maybe_unused, struct print_arg *arg,
+ char **tok)
+{
+ char *token;
+ char *atom;
+
+ if (process_paren(event, arg, &token) < 0)
+ goto out_free;
+
+ atom = arg->atom.atom;
+ if (arg->type != PRINT_ATOM) {
+ do_warning_event(event, "didn't understand %s for sizeof\n",
+ token);
+ goto out_free_atom;
+ }
+
+ if (strcmp(token, "__u64") == 0) {
+ if (asprintf(&arg->atom.atom, "%zd", sizeof(__u64)) < 0)
+ goto out_free_atom;
+ } else if (strcmp(token, "__u32") == 0) {
+ if (asprintf(&arg->atom.atom, "%zd", sizeof(__u32)) < 0)
+ goto out_free_atom;
+ } else {
+ do_warning_event(event, "unknown sizeof %s\n", token);
+ goto out_free_atom;
+ }
+
+ free(atom);
+ *tok = token;
+ return EVENT_DELIM;
+
+ out_free_atom:
+ free_token(atom);
+ out_free:
+ free_token(token);
+ *tok = NULL;
+ return EVENT_ERROR;
+}
+
+static enum event_type
process_bitmask(struct event_format *event __maybe_unused, struct print_arg *arg,
char **tok)
{
@@ -3026,6 +3068,10 @@ process_function(struct event_format *event, struct print_arg *arg,
free_token(token);
return process_dynamic_array_len(event, arg, tok);
}
+ if (strcmp(token, "sizeof") == 0) {
+ free_token(token);
+ return process_sizeof(event, arg, tok);
+ }

func = find_func_handler(event->pevent, token);
if (func) {
--
2.5.5