From 14640106f243a3b29944d7198569090fa6546f2d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 17:46:48 -0500 Subject: tracing/kprobe: Drop function argument access syntax Drop function argument access syntax, because the function arguments depend on not only architecture but also compile-options and function API. And now, we have perf-probe for finding register/memory assigned to each argument. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: systemtap Cc: DLE Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: Michael Neuling Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org LKML-Reference: <20100105224648.19431.52309.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 21 ++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/trace') diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt index c3eff6ff945f..f30978e001f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt @@ -37,15 +37,12 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events @SYM[+|-offs] : Fetch memory at SYM +|- offs (SYM should be a data symbol) $stackN : Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0) $stack : Fetch stack address. - $argN : Fetch function argument. (N >= 0)(*) - $retval : Fetch return value.(**) - +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(***) + $retval : Fetch return value.(*) + +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**) NAME=FETCHARG: Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG. - (*) aN may not correct on asmlinkaged functions and at the middle of - function body. - (**) only for return probe. - (***) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. + (*) only for return probe. + (**) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. Per-Probe Event Filtering @@ -82,11 +79,14 @@ Usage examples To add a probe as a new event, write a new definition to kprobe_events as below. - echo p:myprobe do_sys_open dfd=$arg0 filename=$arg1 flags=$arg2 mode=$arg3 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events + echo p:myprobe do_sys_open dfd=%ax filename=%dx flags=%cx mode=+4($stack) > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events This sets a kprobe on the top of do_sys_open() function with recording -1st to 4th arguments as "myprobe" event. As this example shows, users can -choose more familiar names for each arguments. +1st to 4th arguments as "myprobe" event. Note, which register/stack entry is +assigned to each function argument depends on arch-specific ABI. If you unsure +the ABI, please try to use probe subcommand of perf-tools (you can find it +under tools/perf/). +As this example shows, users can choose more familiar names for each arguments. echo r:myretprobe do_sys_open $retval >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events @@ -147,4 +147,3 @@ events, you need to enable it. returns from SYMBOL(e.g. "sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open" means kernel returns from do_sys_open to sys_open+0x1b). - -- cgit v1.2.1