linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHSET 00/12] tracing/uprobes: Add support for more fetch methods

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Message-ID: <87txkazt8w.fsf@sejong.aot.lge.com>
Date:	Thu, 04 Jul 2013 16:20:15 +0900
From:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Hyeoncheol Lee <cheol.lee@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET 00/12] tracing/uprobes: Add support for more fetch methods

Hi Masami,

On Thu, 04 Jul 2013 15:51:52 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> (2013/07/03 21:35), Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> This patchset implements memory (address), stack[N], deference,
>> bitfield and retval (it needs uretprobe tho) fetch methods for
>> uprobes.  It's based on the previous work [1] done by Hyeoncheol Lee.
>> 
>> Now kprobes and uprobes have their own fetch_type_tables and, in turn,
>> memory and stack access methods.  Other fetch methods are shared.
>> 
>> For the dereference method, I added a new argument to fetch functions.
>> It's because for uprobes it needs to know whether the given address is
>> a file offset or a virtual address in an user process.  For instance,
>> in case of fetching from a memory directly (like @offset) it should
>> convert the address (offset) to a virtual address of the process, but
>> if it's a dereferencing, the given address already has the virtual
>> address.
>
> Thanks Namhyung,
> I agree that uprobe requires a special (file-relative) dereference
> code. I'll look into the basic implementation after fixing current
> dynamic-event related bugs. :)
> (I see, this one should be updated to the latest tree, after
>  merge window is closed)

Yes, I'm catching up the changes.  I'll resend v2 after -rc1 released.

Thanks,
Namhyung
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