linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf script: handle the num array type in python properly

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Message-ID: <87d2exgpp3.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 May 2014 13:43:20 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
To:	Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] perf script: handle the num array type in python properly

On Tue, 27 May 2014 18:14:34 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> The raw_syscalls:sys_enter tracer for instance passes has one argument
> named 'arg' which is an array of 6 integers. Right the python scripts
> gets only 0 passed as an argument. The reason is that
> pevent_read_number() can not handle data types of 48 and returns always
> 0.
> This patch changes this by passing num array as list of nums which fit
> the description. As a result python will now see a list named arg which
> contains 6 (integer) items.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>

But this requires a change in generation time as I faced a type error
when try to print an array argument as number.  I'll post a separate
patch for this.

Thanks,
Namhyung
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