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| <h4 class="subsection">30.1.1 IPA Protocol Objects</h4> |
| <a name="index-ipa-protocol-objects"></a> |
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| <p>The commands sent to and results received from agent may contain some |
| complex data types called <em>objects</em>. |
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| <p>The in-process agent is running on the same machine with <small>GDB</small> |
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| <li> word size. On some 64-bit machines, <small>GDB</small> or GDBserver can be |
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| </li><li> ABI. Some machines may have multiple types of ABI, <small>GDB</small> or |
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| <p>Here are the IPA Protocol Objects: |
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| <li> agent expression object. It represents an agent expression |
| (see <a href="Agent-Expressions.html#Agent-Expressions">Agent Expressions</a>). |
| <a name="agent-expression-object"></a></li><li> tracepoint action object. It represents a tracepoint action |
| (see <a href="Tracepoint-Actions.html#Tracepoint-Actions">Tracepoint Action Lists</a>) to collect registers, |
| memory, static trace data and to evaluate expression. |
| <a name="tracepoint-action-object"></a></li><li> tracepoint object. It represents a tracepoint (see <a href="Tracepoints.html#Tracepoints">Tracepoints</a>). |
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| <p>The following table describes important attributes of each IPA protocol |
| object: |
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| <thead><tr><th width="30%">Name</th><th width="20%">Size</th><th width="50%">Description</th></tr></thead> |
| <tr><td width="30%"><em>agent expression object</em></td><td width="20%"></td><td width="50%"></td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">length</td><td width="20%">4</td><td width="50%">length of bytes code</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">byte code</td><td width="20%"><var>length</var></td><td width="50%">contents of byte code</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%"><em>tracepoint action for collecting memory</em></td><td width="20%"></td><td width="50%"></td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">’M’</td><td width="20%">1</td><td width="50%">type of tracepoint action</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">addr</td><td width="20%">8</td><td width="50%">if <var>basereg</var> is ‘<samp>-1</samp>’, <var>addr</var> is the |
| address of the lowest byte to collect, otherwise <var>addr</var> is the offset |
| of <var>basereg</var> for memory collecting.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">len</td><td width="20%">8</td><td width="50%">length of memory for collecting</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">basereg</td><td width="20%">4</td><td width="50%">the register number containing the starting |
| memory address for collecting.</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%"><em>tracepoint action for collecting registers</em></td><td width="20%"></td><td width="50%"></td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">’R’</td><td width="20%">1</td><td width="50%">type of tracepoint action</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%"><em>tracepoint action for collecting static trace data</em></td><td width="20%"></td><td width="50%"></td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">’L’</td><td width="20%">1</td><td width="50%">type of tracepoint action</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%"><em>tracepoint action for expression evaluation</em></td><td width="20%"></td><td width="50%"></td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">’X’</td><td width="20%">1</td><td width="50%">type of tracepoint action</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">agent expression</td><td width="20%">length of</td><td width="50%"><a href="#agent-expression-object">agent expression object</a></td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%"><em>tracepoint object</em></td><td width="20%"></td><td width="50%"></td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">number</td><td width="20%">4</td><td width="50%">number of tracepoint</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">address</td><td width="20%">8</td><td width="50%">address of tracepoint inserted on</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">type</td><td width="20%">4</td><td width="50%">type of tracepoint</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">enabled</td><td width="20%">1</td><td width="50%">enable or disable of tracepoint</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">step_count</td><td width="20%">8</td><td width="50%">step</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">pass_count</td><td width="20%">8</td><td width="50%">pass</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">numactions</td><td width="20%">4</td><td width="50%">number of tracepoint actions</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">hit count</td><td width="20%">8</td><td width="50%">hit count</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">trace frame usage</td><td width="20%">8</td><td width="50%">trace frame usage</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">compiled_cond</td><td width="20%">8</td><td width="50%">compiled condition</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">orig_size</td><td width="20%">8</td><td width="50%">orig size</td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">condition</td><td width="20%">4 if condition is NULL otherwise length of |
| <a href="#agent-expression-object">agent expression object</a></td><td width="50%">zero if condition is NULL, otherwise is |
| <a href="#agent-expression-object">agent expression object</a></td></tr> |
| <tr><td width="30%">actions</td><td width="20%">variable</td><td width="50%">numactions number of <a href="#tracepoint-action-object">tracepoint action object</a></td></tr> |
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