Re: [PATCH v7 1/5] tracing/probes: support '%pd' type for print struct dentry's name

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On Fri, 22 Mar 2024 00:07:59 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > What would be really useful is if we had a way to expose BTF here. Something like:
> > 
> >  "%pB:<struct>:<field>"
> > 
> > The "%pB" would mean to look up the struct/field offsets and types via BTF,
> > and create the appropriate command to find and print it.
> 
> Would you mean casing the pointer to "<struct>"?

BTW, for this BTF type casting, I would like to make it more naturally, like
(<struct> *)$arg1-><field> as same as other BTF args.

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>