tree 81e725def8479b4f4c7d7114f30df690784864c1
parent 93ccae7a2227466a0d071fe52c51319f2f34c365
author Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> 1271092635 -0400
committer Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> 1271276876 -0300

perf probe: Query basic types from debuginfo

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>