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:Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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