From 187c219b57eaf3e1b7a3cab2c6a8b7909bdbf4a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Namhyung Kim Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 21:13:38 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] perf dwarf-aux: Print array type name with "[]" It's confusing both pointers and arrays are printed as *. Let's print array types with [] so that we can identify them easily. Although it's interchangable, sometimes it can cause confusion with size like in the below example. Note that it is not the same with C syntax where it goes to the variable names, but we want to have it in the type names (like in Go language). Before: mov [20] 0x68(reg5) -> reg0 type='struct page**' size=0x80 (die:0x4e61d32) After: mov [20] 0x68(reg5) -> reg0 type='struct page*[]' size=0x80 (die:0x4e61d32) Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Adrian Hunter Cc: Ian Rogers Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Jiri Olsa Cc: Kan Liang Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240507041338.2081775-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c b/tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c index c0a492e65388..ec988f294497 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c @@ -1110,8 +1110,10 @@ int die_get_typename_from_type(Dwarf_Die *type_die, struct strbuf *buf) const char *tmp = ""; tag = dwarf_tag(type_die); - if (tag == DW_TAG_array_type || tag == DW_TAG_pointer_type) + if (tag == DW_TAG_pointer_type) tmp = "*"; + else if (tag == DW_TAG_array_type) + tmp = "[]"; else if (tag == DW_TAG_subroutine_type) { /* Function pointer */ return strbuf_add(buf, "(function_type)", 15);