From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:53:38 +0000 (-0400) Subject: tracing/kprobes: Add argument name support X-Git-Tag: v2.6.33-rc1~399^2~221 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=eca0d916f6429785bbc88db3ff66631cde62b432;p=pandora-kernel.git tracing/kprobes: Add argument name support Add argument name assignment support and remove "alias" lines from format. This allows user to assign unique name to each argument. For example, $ echo p do_sys_open dfd=a0 filename=a1 flags=a2 mode=a3 > kprobe_events This assigns dfd, filename, flags, and mode to 1st - 4th arguments respectively. Trace buffer shows those names too. <...>-1439 [000] 1200885.933147: do_sys_open+0x0/0xdf: dfd=ffffff9c filename=bfa898ac flags=8000 mode=0 This helps users to know what each value means. Users can filter each events by these names too. Note that you can not filter by argN anymore. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Jim Keniston Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jason Baron Cc: K.Prasad Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Li Zefan Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Tom Zanussi LKML-Reference: <20090910235337.22412.77383.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker --- Reading git-diff-tree failed