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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2010-10-21 19:13:16 +0900
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2010-10-21 15:58:27 -0200
commit632941c4f8fbd5b90dcb1672cd0422dfd7332bc9 (patch)
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parent378eeaad3e1cfea7f6614018fb335de93df2ba1f (diff)
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perf probe: Support global variables
Allow users to set external defined global variables as event arguments (e.g. jiffies). Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> LKML-Reference: <20101021101316.3542.1999.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c25
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
index abcaec5..c6fe80e 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -406,6 +406,9 @@ static int convert_variable_location(Dwarf_Die *vr_die, struct probe_finder *pf)
struct probe_trace_arg *tvar = pf->tvar;
int ret;
+ if (dwarf_attr(vr_die, DW_AT_external, &attr) != NULL)
+ goto static_var;
+
/* TODO: handle more than 1 exprs */
if (dwarf_attr(vr_die, DW_AT_location, &attr) == NULL ||
dwarf_getlocation_addr(&attr, pf->addr, &op, &nops, 1) <= 0 ||
@@ -417,6 +420,7 @@ static int convert_variable_location(Dwarf_Die *vr_die, struct probe_finder *pf)
}
if (op->atom == DW_OP_addr) {
+static_var:
/* Static variables on memory (not stack), make @varname */
ret = strlen(dwarf_diename(vr_die));
tvar->value = zalloc(ret + 2);
@@ -746,17 +750,22 @@ static int find_variable(Dwarf_Die *sp_die, struct probe_finder *pf)
else {
/* Search upper class */
nscopes = dwarf_getscopes_die(sp_die, &scopes);
- if (nscopes > 0) {
- ret = dwarf_getscopevar(scopes, nscopes, pf->pvar->var,
- 0, NULL, 0, 0, &vr_die);
- if (ret >= 0)
+ while (nscopes-- > 1) {
+ pr_debug("Searching variables in %s\n",
+ dwarf_diename(&scopes[nscopes]));
+ /* We should check this scope, so give dummy address */
+ if (die_find_variable_at(&scopes[nscopes],
+ pf->pvar->var, 0,
+ &vr_die)) {
ret = convert_variable(&vr_die, pf);
- else
- ret = -ENOENT;
+ goto found;
+ }
+ }
+ if (scopes)
free(scopes);
- } else
- ret = -ENOENT;
+ ret = -ENOENT;
}
+found:
if (ret < 0)
pr_warning("Failed to find '%s' in this function.\n",
pf->pvar->var);