Hello Rabin,
 
 This patch looks good to me.
 
 Reviewed-by: Qiao Nuohan <qiaonuohan(a)cn.fujitsu.com> 
Rabin, thanks for the patch, and Qiao, thanks for the quick review.
Queued for crash-7.1.0:
  
 
 On 02/05/2015 05:40 AM, Rabin Vincent wrote:
 > Since Linux v3.15 (specifically, the following commit), the event name is
 > optionally moved to another structure.
 >
 > commit de7b2973903c6cc50b31ee5682a69b2219b9919d
 > Author: Mathieu Desnoyers<mathieu.desnoyers(a)efficios.com>
 > Date:   Tue Apr 8 17:26:21 2014 -0400
 >
 >      tracepoint: Use struct pointer instead of name hash for reg/unreg
 >      tracepoints
 >
 > -       char                    *name;
 > +       union {
 > +               char                    *name;
 > +               /* Set TRACE_EVENT_FL_TRACEPOINT flag when using "tp" */
 > +               struct tracepoint       *tp;
 > +       };
 >
 > This patch handles this in the trace extension so that both kernels with and
 > without that commit work.
 > ---
 >   extensions/trace.c | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 >   1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
 >
 > diff --git a/extensions/trace.c b/extensions/trace.c
 > index a09f6a1..8639fb2 100644
 > --- a/extensions/trace.c
 > +++ b/extensions/trace.c
 > @@ -988,19 +988,42 @@ static void ftrace_destroy_event_types(void)
 >   	free(ftrace_common_fields);
 >   }
 >
 > +#define TRACE_EVENT_FL_TRACEPOINT 0x40
 > +
 >   static
 >   int ftrace_get_event_type_name(ulong call, char *name, int len)
 >   {
 >   	static int inited;
 >   	static int name_offset;
 > +	static int flags_offset;
 > +	static int tp_name_offset;
 > +	uint flags;
 >
 >   	ulong name_addr;
 >
 > -	if (!inited) {
 > -		inited = 1;
 > -		name_offset = MEMBER_OFFSET("ftrace_event_call", "name");
 > -	}
 > +	if (inited)
 > +		goto work;
 > +
 > +	inited = 1;
 > +	name_offset = MEMBER_OFFSET("ftrace_event_call", "name");
 > +	if (name_offset>= 0)
 > +		goto work;
 >
 > +	name_offset = ANON_MEMBER_OFFSET("ftrace_event_call",
"name");
 > +	if (name_offset<  0)
 > +		return -1;
 > +
 > +	flags_offset = MEMBER_OFFSET("ftrace_event_call", "flags");
 > +	if (flags_offset<  0)
 > +		return -1;
 > +
 > +	tp_name_offset = MEMBER_OFFSET("tracepoint", "name");
 > +	if (tp_name_offset<  0)
 > +		return -1;
 > +
 > +	inited = 2;
 > +
 > +work:
 >   	if (name_offset<  0)
 >   		return -1;
 >
 > @@ -1008,6 +1031,21 @@ int ftrace_get_event_type_name(ulong call, char
 > *name, int len)
 >   			"read ftrace_event_call name_addr", RETURN_ON_ERROR))
 >   		return -1;
 >
 > +	if (inited == 2) {
 > +		if (!readmem(call + flags_offset, KVADDR,&flags,
 > +			     sizeof(flags), "read ftrace_event_call flags",
 > +			     RETURN_ON_ERROR))
 > +			return -1;
 > +
 > +		if (flags&  TRACE_EVENT_FL_TRACEPOINT) {
 > +			if (!readmem(name_addr + tp_name_offset, KVADDR,
 > +				&name_addr, sizeof(name_addr),
 > +				     "read tracepoint name", RETURN_ON_ERROR))
 > +				return -1;
 > +		}
 > +
 > +	}
 > +
 >   	if (!read_string(name_addr, name, len))
 >   		return -1;
 >
 
 
 --
 Regards
 Qiao Nuohan
 
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