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| author | Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> | 2010-01-05 17:46:48 -0500 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-01-13 10:09:12 +0100 |
| commit | 14640106f243a3b29944d7198569090fa6546f2d (patch) | |
| tree | e5843aab34a60713f473a0e6bde6495827b9f031 /Documentation/trace | |
| parent | ec3a9039601af210fca4650d229621fe5a21df0b (diff) | |
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tracing/kprobe: Drop function argument access syntax
Drop function argument access syntax, because the function
arguments depend on not only architecture but also
compile-options and function API. And now, we have perf-probe
for finding register/memory assigned to each argument.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Mahesh Salgaonkar <mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
LKML-Reference: <20100105224648.19431.52309.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 21 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt index c3eff6ff945f..f30978e001f8 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt @@ -37,15 +37,12 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events @SYM[+|-offs] : Fetch memory at SYM +|- offs (SYM should be a data symbol) $stackN : Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0) $stack : Fetch stack address. - $argN : Fetch function argument. (N >= 0)(*) - $retval : Fetch return value.(**) - +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(***) + $retval : Fetch return value.(*) + +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**) NAME=FETCHARG: Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG. - (*) aN may not correct on asmlinkaged functions and at the middle of - function body. - (**) only for return probe. - (***) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. + (*) only for return probe. + (**) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. Per-Probe Event Filtering @@ -82,11 +79,14 @@ Usage examples To add a probe as a new event, write a new definition to kprobe_events as below. - echo p:myprobe do_sys_open dfd=$arg0 filename=$arg1 flags=$arg2 mode=$arg3 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events + echo p:myprobe do_sys_open dfd=%ax filename=%dx flags=%cx mode=+4($stack) > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events This sets a kprobe on the top of do_sys_open() function with recording -1st to 4th arguments as "myprobe" event. As this example shows, users can -choose more familiar names for each arguments. +1st to 4th arguments as "myprobe" event. Note, which register/stack entry is +assigned to each function argument depends on arch-specific ABI. If you unsure +the ABI, please try to use probe subcommand of perf-tools (you can find it +under tools/perf/). +As this example shows, users can choose more familiar names for each arguments. echo r:myretprobe do_sys_open $retval >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events @@ -147,4 +147,3 @@ events, you need to enable it. returns from SYMBOL(e.g. "sys_open+0x1b/0x1d <- do_sys_open" means kernel returns from do_sys_open to sys_open+0x1b). - |