From 5cc718b9dad682329a60e73547c6e708faa5bbe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:00:54 -0400 Subject: kprobes: Hide CONFIG_OPTPROBES and set if arch supports optimized kprobes Hide CONFIG_OPTPROBES and set if the arch supports optimized kprobes (IOW, HAVE_OPTPROBES=y), since this option doesn't change the major behavior of kprobes, and workarounds for minor changes are documented. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: systemtap Cc: DLE Cc: Dieter Ries Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <20100315170054.31593.3153.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/kprobes.txt | 10 ++-------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt index 2f9115c..61c291c 100644 --- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt +++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt @@ -165,8 +165,8 @@ the user entry_handler invocation is also skipped. 1.4 How Does Jump Optimization Work? -If you configured your kernel with CONFIG_OPTPROBES=y (currently -this option is supported on x86/x86-64, non-preemptive kernel) and +If your kernel is built with CONFIG_OPTPROBES=y (currently this flag +is automatically set 'y' on x86/x86-64, non-preemptive kernel) and the "debug.kprobes_optimization" kernel parameter is set to 1 (see sysctl(8)), Kprobes tries to reduce probe-hit overhead by using a jump instruction instead of a breakpoint instruction at each probepoint. @@ -271,8 +271,6 @@ tweak the kernel's execution path, you need to suppress optimization, using one of the following techniques: - Specify an empty function for the kprobe's post_handler or break_handler. or -- Config CONFIG_OPTPROBES=n. - or - Execute 'sysctl -w debug.kprobes_optimization=n' 2. Architectures Supported @@ -307,10 +305,6 @@ it useful to "Compile the kernel with debug info" (CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO), so you can use "objdump -d -l vmlinux" to see the source-to-object code mapping. -If you want to reduce probing overhead, set "Kprobes jump optimization -support" (CONFIG_OPTPROBES) to "y". You can find this option under the -"Kprobes" line. - 4. API Reference The Kprobes API includes a "register" function and an "unregister" -- cgit v1.1 From 93ccae7a2227466a0d071fe52c51319f2f34c365 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:17:08 -0400 Subject: tracing/kprobes: Support basic types on dynamic events 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 Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Frederic Weisbecker LKML-Reference: <20100412171708.3790.18599.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo --- Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt index a9100b2..ec94748 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt @@ -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. -- cgit v1.1