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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-08-13 16:35:11 -0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2009-08-27 02:31:54 +0200
commit413d37d1eb69c1765b9ace0a612dac9b6c990e66 (patch)
tree6f483714046c388ab9f57b33f17f365cd4e57446 /kernel/trace/Kconfig
parentd93f12f3f417e49a175800da85c6fcb2a5096e03 (diff)
tracing: Add kprobe-based event tracer
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) sa : Fetch stack address. @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/kprobetrace.txt in the next patch for details. Changes from v13: - Support 'sa' for stack address. - Use call->data instead of container_of() macro. [fweisbec@gmail.com: Fixed conflict against latest tracing/core] Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Przemysław Pawełczyk <przemyslaw@pawelczyk.it> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <20090813203510.31965.29123.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index 06be85a7ef8..fb5fbf75f27 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -411,6 +411,18 @@ config BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE
If unsure, say N.
+config KPROBE_TRACER
+ depends on KPROBES
+ depends on X86
+ bool "Trace kprobes"
+ select TRACING
+ select GENERIC_TRACER
+ help
+ This tracer probes everywhere where kprobes can probe it, and
+ records various registers and memories specified by user.
+ This also allows you to trace kprobe probe points as a dynamic
+ defined events. It provides per-probe event filtering interface.
+
config DYNAMIC_FTRACE
bool "enable/disable ftrace tracepoints dynamically"
depends on FUNCTION_TRACER