tracing/probes: Support function parameters if BTF is available
authorMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tue, 6 Jun 2023 12:39:56 +0000 (21:39 +0900)
committerMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Tue, 6 Jun 2023 12:39:56 +0000 (21:39 +0900)
commitb576e09701c7d045bbe5cd85d53e2f34426aa214
tree20d10ab0213b47f5640051cf45a6510c8f1d625a
parent1b8b0cd754cdbb54058165992456368495a695ac
tracing/probes: Support function parameters if BTF is available

Support function or tracepoint parameters by name if BTF support is enabled
and the event is for function entry (this feature can be used with kprobe-
events, fprobe-events and tracepoint probe events.)

Note that the BTF variable syntax does not require a prefix. If it starts
with an alphabetic character or an underscore ('_') without a prefix like
'$' and '%', it is considered as a BTF variable.
If you specify only the BTF variable name, the argument name will also
be the same name instead of 'arg*'.

 # echo 'p vfs_read count pos' >> dynamic_events
 # echo 'f vfs_write count pos' >> dynamic_events
 # echo 't sched_overutilized_tp rd overutilized' >> dynamic_events
 # cat dynamic_events
p:kprobes/p_vfs_read_0 vfs_read count=count pos=pos
f:fprobes/vfs_write__entry vfs_write count=count pos=pos
t:tracepoints/sched_overutilized_tp sched_overutilized_tp rd=rd overutilized=overutilized

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/168507474014.913472.16963996883278039183.stgit@mhiramat.roam.corp.google.com/
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
kernel/trace/Kconfig
kernel/trace/trace.c
kernel/trace/trace_fprobe.c
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
kernel/trace/trace_probe.h