trace: teach lttng backend to use format strings

This makes the UST backend pay attention to the format string arguments
that are defined when defining payload data. With this you can now
ensure integers are reported in hex mode if you want.

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/tracetool/format/ust_events_h.py b/scripts/tracetool/format/ust_events_h.py
index 5102565470..d18989942a 100644
--- a/scripts/tracetool/format/ust_events_h.py
+++ b/scripts/tracetool/format/ust_events_h.py
@@ -63,13 +63,20 @@ def generate(events, backend):
                 name=e.name,
                 args=", ".join(", ".join(i) for i in e.args))
 
-            for t, n in e.args:
-                if ('int' in t) or ('long' in t) or ('unsigned' in t) or ('size_t' in t):
+            types = e.args.types()
+            names = e.args.names()
+            fmts = e.arg_fmts
+            for t,n,f in zip(types, names, fmts):
+                if ('char *' in t) or ('char*' in t):
+                    out('       ctf_string(' + n + ', ' + n + ')')
+                elif ("%p" in f) or ("x" in f) or ("PRIx" in f):
+                    out('       ctf_integer_hex('+ t + ', ' + n + ', ' + n + ')')
+                elif ("ptr" in t) or ("*" in t):
+                    out('       ctf_integer_hex('+ t + ', ' + n + ', ' + n + ')')
+                elif ('int' in t) or ('long' in t) or ('unsigned' in t) or ('size_t' in t):
                     out('       ctf_integer(' + t + ', ' + n + ', ' + n + ')')
                 elif ('double' in t) or ('float' in t):
                     out('       ctf_float(' + t + ', ' + n + ', ' + n + ')')
-                elif ('char *' in t) or ('char*' in t):
-                    out('       ctf_string(' + n + ', ' + n + ')')
                 elif ('void *' in t) or ('void*' in t):
                     out('       ctf_integer_hex(unsigned long, ' + n + ', ' + n + ')')