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From: Masami Hiramatsu on 16 Mar 2010 18:10
Hi Ingo,

Here are several updates of perf-probe.
This updates includes data structure accessing support
--list option enhancement and --dry-run option support.

- --dry-run allows users to run perf-probe just for checking
that the command works correctly.

- --list option enhancement allows user to check where the
probes are put on (with filename/line number).

- data structure accessing support allows user to trace
the contents of local variables/function parameters.

Long-term TODOs (future features):
- Enhance probe-finder to decode call frame instructions.
- Support tracing static variables (non global)
- Support variable basic types from debuginfo (e.g. char, int, ...)
- Support array element (var[N])
- Support string/dynamic arrays (*var, var[N..M])
- Support the type of return value
- Support force type-casting ((type)var)
- Support sys_perf_counter_open (for non-root users)
- Support dynamic array-indexing (var[var2])

Miscs:
- Better support for probes on modules
- More debugger like enhancements(%next, --disasm, etc.)


Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu (10):
perf probe: Accessing members in data structures
perf probe: List probes with line number and file name
perf probe: Introduce kprobe_trace_event and perf_probe_event
perf probe: Add --dry-run option
perf probe: Introduce die_find_child() function
perf probe: Rename some die_get_* functions
perf probe: Rename session to param
perf probe: Move add-probe routine under util/
perf probe: Use wrapper functions
perf tools: Introduce xzalloc() for detecting out of memory


tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | 5
tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | 191 +------
tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 830 +++++++++++++++++++++++--------
tools/perf/util/probe-event.h | 123 ++++-
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 459 ++++++++++++-----
tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h | 60 +-
tools/perf/util/util.h | 7
7 files changed, 1115 insertions(+), 560 deletions(-)

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Masami Hiramatsu
e-mail: mhiramat(a)redhat.com
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