tracing/probe: Add immediate parameter support
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Wed, 19 Jun 2019 15:08:27 +0000 (00:08 +0900)
committerSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Sat, 31 Aug 2019 16:19:39 +0000 (12:19 -0400)
commit6218bf9f4d2942e88d97b60abc8c2ca0532e41a8
treecb0b878e89295891667eefc528e75e69650fc52c
parentab10d69eb714961d1eca4129e4f8cda5e0618f66
tracing/probe: Add immediate parameter support

Add immediate value parameter (\1234) support to
probe events. This allows you to specify an immediate
(or dummy) parameter instead of fetching from memory
or register.

This feature looks odd, but imagine when you put a probe
on a code to trace some data. If the code is compiled into
2 instructions and 1 instruction has a value but other has
nothing since it is optimized out.
In that case, you can not fold those into one event, even
if ftrace supported multiple probes on one event.
With this feature, you can set a dummy value like
foo=\deadbeef instead of something like foo=%di.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156095690733.28024.13258186548822649469.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.rst
kernel/trace/trace.c
kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
kernel/trace/trace_probe.h