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* [PATCH -tip 0/7] perf-probe updates - data-structure support improvements, etc.
@ 2010-03-29 20:37 Masami Hiramatsu
  2010-03-29 20:37 ` [PATCH -tip 1/7] [BUGFIX] perf probe: Fix to close dwarf when failing to analyze it Masami Hiramatsu
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From: Masami Hiramatsu @ 2010-03-29 20:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ingo Molnar, lkml; +Cc: systemtap, DLE

Hi Ingo,

Here are several updates of perf-probe. This series improves
data structure accessing.

- Set the name of argument which traces a data structure member
  as the last member of the data structure reference (e.g. f_mode
  of file->f_mode). This allows us to use perf-trace for tracin
  data-structure members.

- Add the basic type support. This allows us to fetch the memory
  with specified bitwidth. Usually, data-structure members are
  packed on the memory, this means if we want to read a member
  from memory, we have to access it with type casting.
  kprobe-tracer now support tracing argument with basic types
  (u8,u16,u32,u64,s8,s16,s32,s64), and perf-probe decodes the type
  information of the members.

- Support canonical frame address, which is used for refering
  frame-base on the kernel built without CONFIG_FRAME_POINTER.

TODOs (possible features):
  - Support array element (var[N])
  - Support string/dynamic arrays (*var, var[N..M])
  - Support tracing static variables (non global)
  - Support dynamic array-indexing (var[var2])
  - Support force type-casting ((type)var)
  - Show what deta-structure member is assigned to each argument.
  - Better support for probes on modules
  - More debugger like enhancements(%next, --disasm, etc.)

I decided to drop non-root user support (for --add/--del),
because this can set probes for getting sensitive data...

Thank you,

---

Masami Hiramatsu (7):
      perf probe: Support DW_OP_call_frame_cfa in debuginfo
      perf probe: Support basic type casting
      perf probe: Query basic types from debuginfo
      trace/kprobes: Support basic types
      perf probe: Use the last field name as the argument name
      perf probe: Support argument name
      [BUGFIX] perf probe: Fix to close dwarf when failing to analyze it


 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt     |    4 
 kernel/trace/trace.h                    |   16 -
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c             |  535 +++++++++++++++++++------------
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt |   11 +
 tools/perf/builtin-probe.c              |    4 
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.c           |   70 +++-
 tools/perf/util/probe-event.h           |    3 
 tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c          |  131 ++++++--
 tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h          |    1 
 9 files changed, 516 insertions(+), 259 deletions(-)

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com

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2010-03-29 20:37 [PATCH -tip 0/7] perf-probe updates - data-structure support improvements, etc Masami Hiramatsu
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2010-03-29 20:37 ` [PATCH -tip 2/7] perf probe: Support argument name Masami Hiramatsu
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2010-03-29 20:38 ` [PATCH -tip 4/7] trace/kprobes: Support basic types Masami Hiramatsu
2010-03-29 20:38 ` [PATCH -tip 5/7] perf probe: Query basic types from debuginfo Masami Hiramatsu
2010-03-29 20:51   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-29 21:22     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-03-29 21:50       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-29 22:05         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-03-29 22:23           ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2010-03-29 20:38 ` [PATCH -tip 6/7] perf probe: Support basic type casting Masami Hiramatsu
2010-03-29 20:38 ` [PATCH -tip 7/7] perf probe: Support DW_OP_call_frame_cfa in debuginfo Masami Hiramatsu

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