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* [PATCH -tip v2 0/8] perf-probe updates - data-structure support improvements, etc.
@ 2010-04-06 22:05 Masami Hiramatsu
  2010-04-06 22:05 ` [PATCH -tip v2 1/8] perf probe: Support argument name Masami Hiramatsu
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From: Masami Hiramatsu @ 2010-04-06 22:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, lkml
  Cc: Paul Mackerras, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, Peter Zijlstra,
	Mike Galbraith, Frederic Weisbecker, systemtap, DLE

Hi Ingo,

Here are several updates of perf-probe. This series improves
data structure accessing. In this version, I added 'removing die()'
patches.

- Set the name of argument which traces a data structure member
  as the last member of the data structure reference (e.g. f_mode
  of file->f_mode). This allows us to use perf-trace for tracin
  data-structure members.

- Add the basic type support. This allows us to fetch the memory
  with specified bitwidth. Usually, data-structure members are
  packed on the memory, this means if we want to read a member
  from memory, we have to access it with type casting.
  kprobe-tracer now support tracing argument with basic types
  (u8,u16,u32,u64,s8,s16,s32,s64), and perf-probe decodes the type
  information of the members.

- Support canonical frame address, which is used for refering
  frame-base on the kernel built without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.

- Remove almost all die()s from util code, according to acme's
  advice. Thanks!

TODOs (possible features):
  - Support array element (var[N])
  - Support string/dynamic arrays (*var, var[N..M])
  - Support tracing static variables (non global)
  - Support dynamic array-indexing (var[var2])
  - Support force type-casting ((type)var)
  - Show what deta-structure member is assigned to each argument.
  - Better support for probes on modules
  - More debugger like enhancements(%next, --disasm, etc.)

Thank you,

---

Masami Hiramatsu (8):
      perf probe: Remove die() from probe-event code
      perf probe: Remove die() from probe-finder code
      perf probe: Support DW_OP_call_frame_cfa in debuginfo
      perf probe: Support basic type casting
      perf probe: Query basic types from debuginfo
      tracing/kprobes: Support basic types on dynamic events
      perf probe: Use the last field name as the argument name
      perf probe: Support argument name


 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt     |    4 
 kernel/trace/trace.h                    |   16 -
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c             |  535 +++++++++++++++---------
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt |   11 
 tools/perf/builtin-probe.c              |   74 ++-
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c           |  683 ++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.h           |   27 +
 tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c          |  586 ++++++++++++++++++---------
 tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h          |    1 
 9 files changed, 1283 insertions(+), 654 deletions(-)

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com

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2010-04-06 22:06 ` [PATCH -tip v2 6/8] perf probe: Support DW_OP_call_frame_cfa in debuginfo Masami Hiramatsu
2010-04-06 22:06 ` [PATCH -tip v2 7/8] perf probe: Remove die() from probe-finder code Masami Hiramatsu
2010-04-09 23:18   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-04-10  1:28     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-04-10  4:20       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-04-10 14:27         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-04-10 16:48           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-04-10 18:10             ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-04-06 22:06 ` [PATCH -tip v2 8/8] perf probe: Remove die() from probe-event code Masami Hiramatsu

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