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tracing/probe: Support user-space dereference
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Wed, 15 May 2019 05:38:42 +0000 (14:38 +0900)
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Sun, 26 May 2019 03:04:42 +0000 (23:04 -0400)
commite65f7ae7f4da56622ecf8f1eaed333b9a13f9435
tree41eeedabb989b5c5fb0671213d15e40a45349e08
parent88903c464321cdbc2d473c24cbf311f576cf05bc
tracing/probe: Support user-space dereference

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>
Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.rst
kernel/trace/trace.c
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h
kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c