perf probe: Support basic type casting
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:17:22 +0000 (13:17 -0400)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:28:09 +0000 (17:28 -0300)
commit11a1ca3554b377d2a8a318a3cbf8ce10a7a2a8e4
tree36483c56ee6b7148247ef6fbe349b09ee8cfcb25
parent4984912eb23113a4007940cd09c8351c0623ea5f
perf probe: Support basic type casting

Add basic type casting for arguments to perf probe. This allows
users to specify the actual type of arguments. Of course, if
user sets invalid types, kprobe-tracer rejects that.

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: <20100412171722.3790.50372.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt
tools/perf/util/probe-event.c
tools/perf/util/probe-event.h
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c