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From: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Florent Revest <revest@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
	bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>, Sven Schnelle <svens@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v5 12/12] Documentation: tracing: Add a note about argument and retval access
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 22:38:14 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <169556269377.146934.14829235476649685954.stgit@devnote2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <169556254640.146934.5654329452696494756.stgit@devnote2>

From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Add a note about the argument and return value accecss will be best
effort. Depending on the type, it will be passed via stack or a
pair of the registers, but $argN and $retval only support the
single register access.

Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst |    8 ++++++--
 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst |    8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst
index 8e9bebcf0a2e..e35e6b18df40 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst
@@ -59,8 +59,12 @@ Synopsis of fprobe-events
                   and bitfield are supported.
 
   (\*1) This is available only when BTF is enabled.
-  (\*2) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0).
-  (\*3) only for return probe.
+  (\*2) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). Note, this argument access
+        is best effort, because depending on the argument type, it may be passed on
+        the stack. But this only support the arguments via registers.
+  (\*3) only for return probe. Note that this is also best effort. Depending on the
+        return value type, it might be passed via a pair of registers. But this only
+        accesses one register.
   (\*4) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
   (\*5) "u" means user-space dereference.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
index 8a2dfee38145..bf9cecb69fc9 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
@@ -61,8 +61,12 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
 		  (x8/x16/x32/x64), "char", "string", "ustring", "symbol", "symstr"
                   and bitfield are supported.
 
-  (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0).
-  (\*2) only for return probe.
+  (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). Note, this argument access
+        is best effort, because depending on the argument type, it may be passed on
+        the stack. But this only support the arguments via registers.
+  (\*2) only for return probe. Note that this is also best effort. Depending on the
+        return value type, it might be passed via a pair of registers. But this only
+        accesses one register.
   (\*3) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
   (\*4) "u" means user-space dereference. See :ref:`user_mem_access`.
 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-09-24 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-24 13:35 [PATCH v5 00/12] tracing: fprobe: rethook: Use ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-24 13:35 ` [PATCH v5 01/12] riscv: ftrace: Fix to pass correct ftrace_regs to ftrace_func_t functions Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-24 13:36 ` [PATCH v5 02/12] Documentation: probes: Add a new ret_ip callback parameter Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-24 13:36 ` [PATCH v5 03/12] tracing: Add a comment about the requirements of the ftrace_regs Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-24 13:36 ` [PATCH v5 04/12] fprobe: Use ftrace_regs in fprobe entry handler Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-25 10:41   ` Jiri Olsa
2023-09-25 12:15     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-09-25 22:14       ` Jiri Olsa
2023-09-26  0:20         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-09-26  7:23           ` Jiri Olsa
2023-09-26 11:49             ` Jiri Olsa
2023-09-26 14:47               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-09-24 13:36 ` [PATCH v5 05/12] tracing: Expose ftrace_regs regardless of CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-24 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 06/12] fprobe: rethook: Use ftrace_regs in fprobe exit handler and rethook Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-24 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 07/12] tracing: Add ftrace_partial_regs() for converting ftrace_regs to pt_regs Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-24 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 08/12] tracing: Add ftrace_fill_perf_regs() for perf event Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-24 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 09/12] tracing/fprobe: Enable fprobe events with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-24 13:37 ` [PATCH v5 10/12] bpf: Enable kprobe_multi feature if CONFIG_FPROBE is enabled Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-24 13:38 ` [PATCH v5 11/12] Documentation: probes: Update fprobe document to use ftrace_regs Masami Hiramatsu (Google)
2023-09-24 13:38 ` Masami Hiramatsu (Google) [this message]
2023-09-29  1:21 ` [PATCH v5 00/12] tracing: fprobe: rethook: Use ftrace_regs instead of pt_regs Masami Hiramatsu
2023-09-30  0:12   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-09-30  9:14     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-10-02 15:39       ` Masami Hiramatsu

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