[PATCH v5 30/37] tracing: Add hist trigger support for variable reference aliases

2017-11-09 Thread Tom Zanussi
Add support for alias=$somevar where alias can be used as onmatch.xxx($alias). Aliases are a way of creating a new name for an existing variable, for flexibly in making naming more clear in certain cases. For example in the below the user perhaps feels that using $new_lat in the synthetic event

[PATCH v5 30/37] tracing: Add hist trigger support for variable reference aliases

2017-11-09 Thread Tom Zanussi
Add support for alias=$somevar where alias can be used as onmatch.xxx($alias). Aliases are a way of creating a new name for an existing variable, for flexibly in making naming more clear in certain cases. For example in the below the user perhaps feels that using $new_lat in the synthetic event