Message-Id: <20190730152331.2e5867bf8ec7e57bd8dc64d5@kernel.org>
Date:   Tue, 30 Jul 2019 15:23:31 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/12] tracing/probe: Add multi-probes per event
 support

Hi Steve,

Have you already picked this series?
If not yet, should I update and resend this series?

Thank you,

On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 07:28:33 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 15:39:58 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Steve,
> > 
> > Would you have any comment on this?
> > 
> 
> Hi Masami,
> 
> It's on my todo list. As today is a US holiday, I'll look at this on
> Monday.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder!
> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 00:07:09 +0900
> > Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > > This is the 2nd version of multi-probes per event support on ftrace
> > > and perf-tools.
> > > 
> > > Previous version is here;
> > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/5/31/573
> > >   
> > > >From this version, I omitted first 9 patches which has been picked  
> > > to Steve's tree.
> > > In this version, I've fixed some bugs and hardened some unexpected
> > > error cases according to Steve's comment.
> > > Here are changes in this version:
> > > 
> > >  - [1/12] This have below changes. 
> > >     - Warn if the primary trace_probe does not exist.
> > >     - Fix enable_trace_kprobe() to not return error if the any probes
> > >       are "gone" state. If all probes have gone or any other error
> > >       reason, the event can not be enabled and return error.
> > >     - Fix trace_probe_enable() to roll back all enabled uprobe if
> > >       any one of uprobe is failed to enable.
> > >  - [7/12] Swap the checking order of filename for avoiding unexpected
> > >      memory access.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > ====
> > > For trace-event, we can insert same trace-event on several places
> > > on the code, and those can record similar information as a same event
> > > with same format.
> > > 
> > > This series implements similar feature on probe-event. Since the probe
> > > event is based on the compiled binary, sometimes we find that the target
> > > source line is complied into several different addresses, e.g. inlined
> > > function, unrolled loop, etc. In those cases, it is useful to put a
> > > same probe-event on different addresses.
> > > 
> > > With this series, we can append multi probes on one event as below
> > > 
> > >   # echo p:testevent _do_fork r1=%ax r2=%dx > kprobe_events
> > >   # echo p:testevent fork_idle r1=%ax r2=%cx >> kprobe_events
> > >   # kprobe_events
> > >   p:kprobes/testevent _do_fork r1=%ax r2=%dx
> > >   p:kprobes/testevent fork_idle r1=%ax r2=%cx
> > > 
> > > This means testevent is hit on both of _do_fork and fork_idle.
> > > As you can see, the appended event must have same number of arguments
> > > and those must have same 'type' and 'name' as original one. This is like
> > > a function signature, it checks whether the appending event has the same
> > > type and name of event arguments and same probe type, but doesn't care
> > > about the assignment.
> > > 
> > > So, below appending commands will be rejected.
> > > 
> > >   # echo p:testevent _do_fork r1=%ax r2=%dx > kprobe_events
> > >   # echo p:testevent fork_idle r1=%ax >> kprobe_events
> > >   (No 2nd argument)
> > >   # echo p:testevent fork_idle r1=%ax r2=%ax:x8 >> kprobe_events
> > >   (The type of 2nd argument is different)
> > > 
> > > If one inlined code has an argument on a register, but another
> > > inlined code has fixed value (as a result of optimization),
> > > you can also specify the fixed immediate value, e.g.
> > > 
> > >   # echo p:testevent _do_fork r1=%ax r2=%dx > kprobe_events
> > >   # echo p:testevent fork_idle r1=%ax r2=\1 >> kprobe_events
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thank you,
> > > 
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > Masami Hiramatsu (12):
> > >       tracing/probe: Split trace_event related data from trace_probe
> > >       tracing/dynevent: Delete all matched events
> > >       tracing/dynevent: Pass extra arguments to match operation
> > >       tracing/kprobe: Add multi-probe per event support
> > >       tracing/uprobe: Add multi-probe per uprobe event support
> > >       tracing/kprobe: Add per-probe delete from event
> > >       tracing/uprobe: Add per-probe delete from event
> > >       tracing/probe: Add immediate parameter support
> > >       tracing/probe: Add immediate string parameter support
> > >       selftests/ftrace: Add a testcase for kprobe multiprobe event
> > >       selftests/ftrace: Add syntax error test for immediates
> > >       selftests/ftrace: Add syntax error test for multiprobe
> > > 
> > > 
> > >  Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst                |    1 
> > >  Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.rst               |    1 
> > >  kernel/trace/trace.c                               |    8 -
> > >  kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c                      |   10 +
> > >  kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.h                      |    7 -
> > >  kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c                   |    4 
> > >  kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c                        |  241 ++++++++++++++----
> > >  kernel/trace/trace_probe.c                         |  176 +++++++++++--
> > >  kernel/trace/trace_probe.h                         |   67 ++++-
> > >  kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c                        |  263 +++++++++++++++-----
> > >  tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/functions    |    2 
> > >  .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_multiprobe.tc      |   35 +++
> > >  .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_syntax_errors.tc   |   15 +
> > >  13 files changed, 665 insertions(+), 165 deletions(-)
> > >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_multiprobe.tc
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhiramat@...nel.org>  
> > 
> > 
> 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>

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