Add immediate value parameter (\1234) support to
probe events. This allows you to specify an immediate
(or dummy) parameter instead of fetching from memory
or register.
This feature looks odd, but imagine when you put a probe
on a code to trace some data. If the code is compiled into
2 instructions and 1 instruction has a value but other has
nothing since it is optimized out.
In that case, you can not fold those into one event, even
if ftrace supported multiple probes on one event.
With this feature, you can set a dummy value like
foo=\deadbeef instead of something like foo=%di.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156095690733.28024.13258186548822649469.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
- Add user space specific memory reading for kprobes
- Allow kprobes to be executed earlier in boot
The rest are mostly just various clean ups and small fixes.
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The main changes in this release include:
- Add user space specific memory reading for kprobes
- Allow kprobes to be executed earlier in boot
The rest are mostly just various clean ups and small fixes"
* tag 'trace-v5.3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
tracing: Make trace_get_fields() global
tracing: Let filter_assign_type() detect FILTER_PTR_STRING
tracing: Pass type into tracing_generic_entry_update()
ftrace/selftest: Test if set_event/ftrace_pid exists before writing
ftrace/selftests: Return the skip code when tracing directory not configured in kernel
tracing/kprobe: Check registered state using kprobe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call accesses APIs
tracing/probe: Add probe event name and group name accesses APIs
tracing/probe: Add trace flag access APIs for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_file access APIs for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_event_call register API for trace_probe
tracing/probe: Add trace_probe init and free functions
tracing/uprobe: Set print format when parsing command
tracing/kprobe: Set print format right after parsed command
kprobes: Fix to init kprobes in subsys_initcall
tracepoint: Use struct_size() in kmalloc()
ring-buffer: Remove HAVE_64BIT_ALIGNED_ACCESS
ftrace: Enable trampoline when rec count returns back to one
tracing/kprobe: Do not run kprobe boot tests if kprobe_event is on cmdline
tracing: Make a separate config for trace event self tests
...
After following the document step by step, the `cat trace` can't be
worked without enabling tracing_on and might mislead newbies about
the functionality.
Signed-off-by: Lecopzer Chen <lecopzer.chen@mediatek.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Support user-space dereference syntax for probe event arguments
to dereference the data-structure or array in user-space.
The syntax is just adding 'u' before an offset value.
+|-u<OFFSET>(<FETCHARG>)
e.g. +u8(%ax), +u0(+0(%si))
For example, if you probe do_sched_setscheduler(pid, policy,
param) and record param->sched_priority, you can add new
probe as below;
p do_sched_setscheduler priority=+u0($arg3)
Note that kprobe event provides this and it doesn't change the
dereference method automatically because we do not know whether
the given address is in userspace or kernel on some archs.
So as same as "ustring", this is an option for user, who has to
carefully choose the dereference method.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789872187.26965.4468456816590888687.stgit@devnote2
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
uprobe_profile has filename and number of probe hits information for
each uprobe event. The documentation erroneously talks about probe
mis-hits. Update the documentation to the correct information.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1550557168-12345-1-git-send-email-srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reported-by: KAUSTUBH RAJENDRA WELANKAR <f20160095@hyderabad.bits-pilani.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Use dyn_event framework for uprobe events. This shows
uprobe events on "dynamic_events" file.
User can also define new uprobe events via dynamic_events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154140858481.17322.9091293846515154065.stgit@devbox
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Tested-by: Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The per-event files to enable or disable kprobes and uprobes
are named 'enable', not 'enabled'. Fix the corresponding
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
This converts the plain text documentation to reStructuredText format and
add it into Sphinx TOC tree. No essential content change.
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2018-03-07 10:23:19 -07:00
Renamed from Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt (Browse further)
