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From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@linux.intel.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	linux-trace-users@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org, shuah@kernel.org,
	kernel-team@lge.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/19] [BUGFIX] tracing: probeevent: Fix to support minus offset from symbol
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 11:28:14 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180305022814.GA8824@sejong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180302153229.dbc4dc9be90a0132b7010010@kernel.org>

Hi Masami,

On Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 03:32:29PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2018 13:49:51 +0900
> Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Masami,
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 12:19:53PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > > In Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt, it says
> > > 
> > >  @SYM[+|-offs] : Fetch memory at SYM +|- offs (SYM should be a data symbol)
> > > 
> > > However, the parser doesn't parse minus offset correctly, since
> > > commit 2fba0c8867af ("tracing/kprobes: Fix probe offset to be
> > > unsigned") drops minus ("-") offset support for kprobe probe
> > > address usage.
> > > 
> > > This fixes the traceprobe_split_symbol_offset() to parse minus
> > > offset again with checking the offset range, and add a minus
> > > offset check in kprobe probe address usage.
> > 
> > It now parses a minus offset but doesn't allow it, right?
> 
> No, split_symbol_offset() is used for 2 cases
>  - kprobe-event probe point
>  - kporbe-event symbol-based argument
> 
> Former one doesn't accept a minus offset, but latter accepts it.

Ah, ok then.

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>


> 
> (Frankly to say, I guess no one care about supporting minus offset :P)

:)

Thanks,
Namhyung

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-05  2:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-28  3:19 [PATCH v4 00/19] tracing: probeevent: Improve fetcharg features Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:19 ` [PATCH v4 01/19] [BUGFIX] tracing: probeevent: Fix to support minus offset from symbol Masami Hiramatsu
2018-03-02  4:49   ` Namhyung Kim
2018-03-02  6:32     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-03-05  2:28       ` Namhyung Kim [this message]
2018-03-05 10:05         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:20 ` [PATCH v4 02/19] selftests: ftrace: Add probe event argument syntax testcase Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:20 ` [PATCH v4 03/19] selftests: ftrace: Add a testcase for string type with kprobe_event Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:21 ` [PATCH v4 04/19] selftests: ftrace: Add a testcase for probepoint Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:21 ` [PATCH v4 05/19] tracing: probeevent: Cleanup print argument functions Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:22 ` [PATCH v4 06/19] tracing: probeevent: Cleanup argument field definition Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:22 ` [PATCH v4 07/19] tracing: probeevent: Remove NOKPROBE_SYMBOL from print functions Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:23 ` [PATCH v4 08/19] tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:23 ` [PATCH v4 09/19] tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch type tables Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:24 ` [PATCH v4 10/19] tracing: probeevent: Return consumed bytes of dynamic area Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:24 ` [PATCH v4 11/19] tracing: probeevent: Append traceprobe_ for exported function Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 12/19] tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch_insn processing common part Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:25 ` [PATCH v4 13/19] tracing: probeevent: Add symbol type Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:26 ` [PATCH v4 14/19] x86: ptrace: Add function argument access API Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:26 ` [PATCH v4 15/19] tracing: probeevent: Add $argN for accessing function args Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:27 ` [PATCH v4 16/19] tracing: probeevent: Add array type support Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:27 ` [PATCH v4 17/19] selftests: ftrace: Add a testcase for symbol type Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:28 ` [PATCH v4 18/19] selftests: ftrace: Add a testcase for $argN with kprobe_event Masami Hiramatsu
2018-03-02  5:31   ` Namhyung Kim
2018-03-02  6:20     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-02-28  3:28 ` [PATCH v4 19/19] selftests: ftrace: Add a testcase for array type " Masami Hiramatsu

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