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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>2013-11-25 13:42:47 +0900
committerSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2014-01-02 20:57:05 -0500
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tracing/uprobes: Add @+file_offset fetch method
Enable to fetch data from a file offset. Currently it only supports fetching from same binary uprobe set. It'll translate the file offset to a proper virtual address in the process. The syntax is "@+OFFSET" as it does similar to normal memory fetching (@ADDR) which does no address translation. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Acked-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: zhangwei(Jovi) <jovi.zhangwei@huawei.com> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
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@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Synopsis of uprobe_tracer
FETCHARGS : Arguments. Each probe can have up to 128 args.
%REG : Fetch register REG
@ADDR : Fetch memory at ADDR (ADDR should be in userspace)
+ @+OFFSET : Fetch memory at OFFSET (OFFSET from same file as PATH)
$stackN : Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0)
$stack : Fetch stack address.
$retval : Fetch return value.(*)