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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>2018-04-25 21:20:28 +0900
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2018-10-10 22:19:10 -0400
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tracing: probeevent: Add symbol type
Add "symbol" type to probeevent, which is an alias of u32 or u64 (depends on BITS_PER_LONG). This shows the result value in symbol+offset style. This type is only available with kprobe events. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465882860.26224.14779072294412467338.stgit@devbox Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ offset, and container-size (usually 32). The syntax is::
b<bit-width>@<bit-offset>/<container-size>
+Symbol type('symbol') is an alias of u32 or u64 type (depends on BITS_PER_LONG)
+which shows given pointer in "symbol+offset" style.
For $comm, the default type is "string"; any other type is invalid.
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