perf probe: Query basic types from debuginfo
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:17:15 +0000 (13:17 -0400)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:27:56 +0000 (17:27 -0300)
Query the basic type information (byte-size and signed-flag) from
debuginfo and pass that to kprobe-tracer. This is especially useful
for tracing the members of data structure, because each member has
different byte-size on the memory.

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: <20100412171715.3790.23730.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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