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Support basic types of integer (u8, u16, u32, u64, s8, s16, s32, s64) in
kprobe tracer. With this patch, users can specify above basic types on
each arguments after ':'. If omitted, the argument type is set as
unsigned long (u32 or u64, arch-dependent).

 e.g.
  echo 'p account_system_time+0 hardirq_offset=%si:s32' > kprobe_events

  adds a probe recording hardirq_offset in signed-32bits value on the
  entry of account_system_time.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100412171708.3790.18599.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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Masami Hiramatsu authored and acmel committed Apr 14, 2010
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4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
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Expand Up @@ -40,7 +40,9 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
$stack : Fetch stack address.
$retval : Fetch return value.(*)
+|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**)
NAME=FETCHARG: Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
FETCHARG:TYPE : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types
(u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64) are supported.

(*) only for return probe.
(**) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
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16 changes: 2 additions & 14 deletions kernel/trace/trace.h
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Expand Up @@ -102,29 +102,17 @@ struct syscall_trace_exit {
long ret;
};

struct kprobe_trace_entry {
struct kprobe_trace_entry_head {
struct trace_entry ent;
unsigned long ip;
int nargs;
unsigned long args[];
};

#define SIZEOF_KPROBE_TRACE_ENTRY(n) \
(offsetof(struct kprobe_trace_entry, args) + \
(sizeof(unsigned long) * (n)))

struct kretprobe_trace_entry {
struct kretprobe_trace_entry_head {
struct trace_entry ent;
unsigned long func;
unsigned long ret_ip;
int nargs;
unsigned long args[];
};

#define SIZEOF_KRETPROBE_TRACE_ENTRY(n) \
(offsetof(struct kretprobe_trace_entry, args) + \
(sizeof(unsigned long) * (n)))

/*
* trace_flag_type is an enumeration that holds different
* states when a trace occurs. These are:
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