- Add support for "bool" type in synthetic events
- Add per instance tracing for bootconfig
- Support perf-style return probe ("SYMBOL%return") in kprobes and uprobes
- Allow for kprobes to be enabled earlier in boot up
- Added tracepoint helper function to allow testing if tracepoints are
enabled in headers
- Synthetic events can now have dynamic strings (variable length)
- Various fixes and cleanups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"Updates for tracing and bootconfig:
- Add support for "bool" type in synthetic events
- Add per instance tracing for bootconfig
- Support perf-style return probe ("SYMBOL%return") in kprobes and
uprobes
- Allow for kprobes to be enabled earlier in boot up
- Added tracepoint helper function to allow testing if tracepoints
are enabled in headers
- Synthetic events can now have dynamic strings (variable length)
- Various fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'trace-v5.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (58 commits)
tracing: support "bool" type in synthetic trace events
selftests/ftrace: Add test case for synthetic event syntax errors
tracing: Handle synthetic event array field type checking correctly
selftests/ftrace: Change synthetic event name for inter-event-combined test
tracing: Add synthetic event error logging
tracing: Check that the synthetic event and field names are legal
tracing: Move is_good_name() from trace_probe.h to trace.h
tracing: Don't show dynamic string internals in synthetic event description
tracing: Fix some typos in comments
tracing/boot: Add ftrace.instance.*.alloc_snapshot option
tracing: Fix race in trace_open and buffer resize call
tracing: Check return value of __create_val_fields() before using its result
tracing: Fix synthetic print fmt check for use of __get_str()
tracing: Remove a pointless assignment
ftrace: ftrace_global_list is renamed to ftrace_ops_list
ftrace: Format variable declarations of ftrace_allocate_records
ftrace: Simplify the calculation of page number for ftrace_page->records
ftrace: Simplify the dyn_ftrace->flags macro
ftrace: Simplify the hash calculation
ftrace: Use fls() to get the bits for dup_hash()
...
There are several files that I was unable to find a proper place
for them, and 3 ones that are still in plain old text format.
Let's place those stuff behind the carpet, as we'd like to keep the
root directory clean.
We can later discuss and move those into better places.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/11bd0d75e65a874f7c276a0aeab0fe13f3376f5f.1592203650.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Fix for several documentation build warnings related to missing blank lines
after explicit mark up.
Exact warning message:
WARNING: Explicit markup ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Signed-off-by: Sameer Rahmani <lxsameer@gnu.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200203201543.24834-1-lxsameer@gnu.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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
...
Sphinx expects a blank line after a literal block markup.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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>
Add kprobe_event= boot parameter to define kprobe events
at boot time.
The definition syntax is similar to tracefs/kprobe_events
interface, but use ',' and ';' instead of ' ' and '\n'
respectively. e.g.
kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
This puts a probe on vfs_read with argument1 and 2, and
enable the new event.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155851395498.15728.830529496248543583.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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>
Add "ustring" type for fetching user-space string from kprobe event.
User can specify ustring type at uprobe event, and it is same as
"string" for uprobe.
Note that probe-event provides this option but it doesn't choose the
correct type automatically since we have not way to decide the address
is in user-space or not on some arch (and on some other arch, you can
fetch the string by "string" type). So user must carefully check the
target code (e.g. if you see __user on the target variable) and
use this new type.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789871009.26965.14167558859557329331.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>
Use dyn_event framework for kprobe events. This shows
kprobe events on "tracing/dynamic_events" file.
User can also define new events via tracing/dynamic_events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154140855646.17322.6619219995865980392.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>
Add $argN special fetch variable for accessing function
arguments. This allows user to trace the Nth argument easily
at the function entry.
Note that this returns most probably assignment of registers
and stacks. In some case, it may not work well. If you need
to access correct registers or stacks you should use perf-probe.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465888632.26224.3412465701570253696.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add array type support for probe events.
This allows user to get arraied types from memory address.
The array type syntax is
TYPE[N]
Where TYPE is one of types (u8/16/32/64,s8/16/32/64,
x8/16/32/64, symbol, string) and N is a fixed value less
than 64.
The string array type is a bit different from other types. For
other base types, <base-type>[1] is equal to <base-type>
(e.g. +0(%di):x32[1] is same as +0(%di):x32.) But string[1] is not
equal to string. The string type itself represents "char array",
but string array type represents "char * array". So, for example,
+0(%di):string[1] is equal to +0(+0(%di)):string.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465891533.26224.6150658225601339931.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Add "symbol" type to probeevent, which is an alias of u32 or u64
(depends on BITS_PER_LONG). This shows the result value in
symbol+offset style. This type is only available with kprobe
events.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/152465882860.26224.14779072294412467338.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As the other files are documented explicitly, let's add a
short description for 'trigger' as well.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Ziegler <andreas.ziegler@fau.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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>
Linus Torvalds