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Commit a42e3c4d authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Steven Rostedt (VMware)
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tracing/probe: Add immediate string parameter support



Add immediate string parameter (\"string") support to
probe events. This allows you to specify an immediate
(or dummy) parameter instead of fetching a string from
memory.

This feature looks odd, but imagine that you put a probe
on a code to trace some string data. If the code is
compiled into 2 instructions and 1 instruction has a
string on memory but other has no string since it is
optimized out. In that case, you can not fold those into
one event, even if ftrace supported multiple probes on
one event. With this feature, you can set a dummy string
like foo=\"(optimized)":string instead of something
like foo=+0(+0(%bp)):string.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156095691687.28024.13372712423865047991.stgit@devnote2

Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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