Re: [PATCH -tip v9 7/7] tracing: add kprobe-based event tracer

[Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>]

On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 08:37:54PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Add kprobes-based event tracer on ftrace.
> 
> This tracer is similar to the events tracer which is based on Tracepoint
> infrastructure. Instead of Tracepoint, this tracer is based on kprobes(kprobe
> and kretprobe). It probes anywhere where kprobes can probe(this means, all
> functions body except for __kprobes functions).
> 
> Similar to the events tracer, this tracer doesn't need to be activated via
> current_tracer, instead of that, just set probe points via
> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events. And you can set filters on each
> probe events via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/<EVENT>/filter.
> 
> This tracer supports following probe arguments for each probe.
> 
>   %REG  : Fetch register REG
>   sN    : Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0)
>   @ADDR : Fetch memory at ADDR (ADDR should be in kernel)
>   @SYM[+|-offs] : Fetch memory at SYM +|- offs (SYM should be a data symbol)
>   aN    : Fetch function argument. (N >= 0)
>   rv    : Fetch return value.
>   ra    : Fetch return address.
>   +|-offs(FETCHARG) : fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.
> 
> See Documentation/trace/kprobes.txt for details.
> 
> Changes from v8:
>  - Fix wrong argument offsets in format.
>  - Remove EVENT_TRACING selection in Kconfig.
>  - Fix debugfs file path.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>

The kprobe usage look fine.

Tested on x86 and works fine too! Great work, Masami.

Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>