tools lib traceevent: Handle new pointer processing of bprint strings
The Linux kernel printf() has some extended use cases that dereference the pointer. This is dangerouse for tracing because the pointer that is dereferenced can change or even be unmapped. It also causes issues when the trace data is extracted, because user space does not have access to the contents of the pointer even if it still exists. To handle this, the kernel was updated to process these dereferenced pointers at the time they are recorded, and not post processed. Now they exist in the tracing buffer, and no dereference is needed at the time of reading the trace. The event parsing library needs to handle this new case. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180112004822.403349289@goodmis.orgSigned-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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