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>
This commit is contained in:
Masami Hiramatsu
2011-02-04 21:52:05 +09:00
committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
parent e374536998
commit 1ff511e35e
2 changed files with 118 additions and 2 deletions

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@@ -42,11 +42,25 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
+|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**)
NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
FETCHARG:TYPE : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types
(u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64) and string are supported.
(u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), "string" and bitfield
are supported.
(*) only for return probe.
(**) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
Types
-----
Several types are supported for fetch-args. Kprobe tracer will access memory
by given type. Prefix 's' and 'u' means those types are signed and unsigned
respectively. Traced arguments are shown in decimal (signed) or hex (unsigned).
String type is a special type, which fetches a "null-terminated" string from
kernel space. This means it will fail and store NULL if the string container
has been paged out.
Bitfield is another special type, which takes 3 parameters, bit-width, bit-
offset, and container-size (usually 32). The syntax is;
b<bit-width>@<bit-offset>/<container-size>
Per-Probe Event Filtering
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