tracing/kprobes: Add bitfield type
Add bitfield type for tracing arguments on kprobe-tracer. The syntax of a bitfield type is: b<bit-size>@<bit-offset>/<container-size> e.g. Accessing 2 bits-width field with 4 bits-offset in 32 bits-width data at 4 bytes offseted from the address pointed by AX register: +4(%ax):b2@4/32 Since the width of container data depends on the arch, so I just added the container-size at the end. Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> LKML-Reference: <20110204125205.9507.11363.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -42,11 +42,25 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
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+|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**)
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NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
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FETCHARG:TYPE : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types
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(u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64) and string are supported.
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(u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), "string" and bitfield
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are supported.
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(*) only for return probe.
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(**) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
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Types
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-----
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Several types are supported for fetch-args. Kprobe tracer will access memory
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by given type. Prefix 's' and 'u' means those types are signed and unsigned
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respectively. Traced arguments are shown in decimal (signed) or hex (unsigned).
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String type is a special type, which fetches a "null-terminated" string from
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kernel space. This means it will fail and store NULL if the string container
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has been paged out.
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Bitfield is another special type, which takes 3 parameters, bit-width, bit-
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offset, and container-size (usually 32). The syntax is;
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b<bit-width>@<bit-offset>/<container-size>
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Per-Probe Event Filtering
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