linux/tools/perf
Masami Hiramatsu f182e3e13c perf probe: Avoid searching variables in intermediate scopes
Fix variable searching logic to search one in inner than local scope or
global(CU) scope. In the other words, skip searching in intermediate
scopes.

e.g., in the following code,

int var1;

void inline infunc(int i)
{
    i++;   <--- [A]
}

void func(void)
{
   int var1, var2;
   infunc(var2);
}

At [A], "var1" should point the global variable "var1", however, if user
mis-typed as "var2", variable search should be failed. However, current
logic searches variable infunc() scope, global scope, and then func()
scope. Thus, it can find "var2" variable in func() scope. This may not
be what user expects.

So, it would better not search outer scopes except outermost (compile
unit) scope which contains only global variables, when it failed to find
given variable in local scope.

E.g.

Without this:
$ perf probe -V pre_schedule --externs > without.vars

With this:
$ perf probe -V pre_schedule --externs > with.vars

Check the diff:
$ diff without.vars with.vars
88d87
<               int     cpu
133d131
<               long unsigned int*      switch_count

These vars are actually in the scope of schedule(), the caller of
pre_schedule().

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20110811110305.19900.94374.stgit@fedora15
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2011-08-12 09:29:34 -03:00
..
arch [S390] perf: add DWARF register lookup for s390 2011-01-05 12:47:31 +01:00
bench perf tool: Fix gcc 4.6.0 issues 2011-02-07 12:41:41 -02:00
config perf tools: git mv tools/perf/{features-tests.mak,config/} 2011-04-19 08:18:36 -03:00
Documentation perf probe: Support adding probes on offline kernel modules 2011-07-15 16:25:12 -04:00
python perf evlist: Store pointer to the cpu and thread maps 2011-01-31 12:40:52 -02:00
scripts perf script: Finish the rename from trace to script 2010-12-25 11:29:02 -02:00
util perf probe: Avoid searching variables in intermediate scopes 2011-08-12 09:29:34 -03:00
.gitignore perf tools: Makefile: Remove various and sundry cruft 2011-02-18 07:43:06 -02:00
builtin-annotate.c perf report/annotate/script: Add option to specify a CPU range 2011-07-05 10:44:44 +02:00
builtin-bench.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-buildid-cache.c perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
builtin-buildid-list.c Merge commit 'v2.6.37-rc8' into perf/core 2011-01-04 08:08:54 +01:00
builtin-diff.c perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
builtin-evlist.c perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
builtin-help.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-inject.c perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
builtin-kmem.c perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
builtin-kvm.c perf options: Type check all the remaining OPT_ variants 2010-05-17 16:22:41 -03:00
builtin-list.c perf list: Allow filtering list of events 2011-02-17 15:38:58 -02:00
builtin-lock.c perf lock: Dropping unsupported ':r' modifier 2011-08-08 09:41:35 -03:00
builtin-probe.c perf probe: Warn when more than one line are given 2011-08-12 09:27:11 -03:00
builtin-record.c perf evlist: Introduce 'disable' method 2011-07-25 11:06:19 -03:00
builtin-report.c perf report: Use ui__warning in some more places 2011-08-03 12:33:24 -03:00
builtin-sched.c perf sched: Usage leftover from trace -> script rename 2011-08-09 13:32:12 -03:00
builtin-script.c perf report/annotate/script: Add option to specify a CPU range 2011-07-05 10:44:44 +02:00
builtin-stat.c perf tools: De-opt the parse_events function 2011-07-21 10:41:11 +02:00
builtin-test.c perf tools: Make test use the preset debugfs path 2011-07-21 10:41:14 +02:00
builtin-timechart.c perf session: Pass evsel in event_ops->sample() 2011-03-23 19:28:58 -03:00
builtin-top.c perf tools: De-opt the parse_events function 2011-07-21 10:41:11 +02:00
builtin.h perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
command-list.txt perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
CREDITS perf_counter tools: Add CREDITS file for Git contributors 2009-06-24 19:54:29 +02:00
design.txt perf: Fix few typos + cosmetics 2010-01-13 17:39:44 +01:00
Makefile perf tools: Add support to install perf python extension 2011-08-08 12:54:26 -03:00
MANIFEST perf packaging: add memcpy to perf MANIFEST 2010-11-30 23:00:10 -02:00
perf-archive.sh perf buildid: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir 2010-06-05 09:34:04 -03:00
perf.c perf evlist: New command to list the names of events present in a perf.data file 2011-03-15 11:10:48 -03:00
perf.h perf record: Move perf_mmap__write_tail to perf.h 2011-01-22 19:56:29 -02:00