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We want to track type states as instructions are executed. Each
instruction can access compound types like struct or union and load/
store its members to a different location.
The die_deref_ptr_type() is to find a type of memory access with a
pointer variable. If it points to a compound type like struct, the
target memory is a member in the struct. The access will happen with an
offset indicating which member it refers. Let's follow the DWARF info
to figure out the type of the pointer target.
For example, say we have the following code.
struct foo {
int a;
int b;
};
struct foo *p = malloc(sizeof(*p));
p->b = 0;
The last pointer access should produce x86 asm like below:
mov 0x0, 4(%rbx)
And we know %rbx register has a pointer to struct foo. Then offset 4
should return the debug info of member 'b'.
Also variables of compound types can be accessed directly without a
pointer. The die_get_member_type() is to handle a such case.
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240319055115.4063940-4-namhyung@kernel.org
[ Check if die_get_real_type() returned NULL ]
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Linux kernel
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In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.