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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2010-04-12 13:17:00 -0400
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-04-14 17:26:14 -0300
commitdf0faf4be02996135bc3a06b4f34360449c78084 (patch)
treea881d7b195d1759e470c0c024c52221508067ebf /tools/perf/Documentation
parent48481938b02471d505296d7557ed296eb093d496 (diff)
perf probe: Use the last field name as the argument name
Set the last field name to the argument name when the argument is refering a data-structure member. e.g. ./perf probe --add 'vfs_read file->f_mode' Add new event: probe:vfs_read (on vfs_read with f_mode=file->f_mode) This probe records file->f_mode, but the argument name becomes "f_mode". This enables perf-trace command to parse trace event format correctly. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20100412171700.3790.72961.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
index e36ed4dd386..441324f2615 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Each probe argument follows below syntax.
[NAME=]LOCALVAR|$retval|%REG|@SYMBOL
-'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).
+'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'.)
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