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-rw-r--r--tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt2
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/probe-event.c4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
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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diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
index ab6f53deaba..19de8b77973 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
@@ -481,6 +481,10 @@ static void parse_perf_probe_arg(const char *str, struct perf_probe_arg *arg)
} while (tmp);
(*fieldp)->name = xstrdup(str);
pr_debug("%s(%d)\n", (*fieldp)->name, (*fieldp)->ref);
+
+ /* If no name is specified, set the last field name */
+ if (!arg->name)
+ arg->name = xstrdup((*fieldp)->name);
}
/* Parse perf-probe event command */