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Message-ID: <dcdae58c4bac15e012067866afac19bca13ba7cf.camel@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2020 09:35:32 -0500
From: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
Cc: rostedt@...dmis.org, axelrasmussen@...gle.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] tracing: Make trace_*_run_command() more flexible
Hi Masami,
On Mon, 2020-10-19 at 00:15 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> On Sun, 18 Oct 2020 23:20:11 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> > Hi Tom,
> >
> > On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 16:48:22 -0500
> > Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > > trace_run_command() and therefore functions that use it, such as
> > > trace_parse_run_command(), uses argv_split() to split the command
> > > into
> > > an array of args then passed to the callback to handle.
> > >
> > > This works fine for most commands but some commands would like to
> > > allow the user to use and additional separator to visually group
> > > items
> > > in the command. One example would be synthetic event commands,
> > > which
> > > use semicolons to group fields:
> > >
> > > echo 'event_name int a; char b[]; u64 lat' >> synthetic_events
> > >
> > > What gets passed as an args array to the command for a command
> > > like
> > > this include tokens that have semicolons included with the token,
> > > which the callback then needs to strip out, since argv_split()
> > > only
> > > looks at whitespace as a separator.
> > >
> > > It would be nicer to just have trace_run_command() strip out the
> > > semicolons at its level rather than passing that task onto the
> > > callback. To accomplish that, this change adds an
> > > 'additional_sep'
> > > arg to a new __trace_run_command() function that allows a caller
> > > to
> > > pass an additional separator char that if non-zero simply
> > > replaces
> > > that character with whitespace before splitting the command into
> > > args.
> > > The original trace_run_command() remains as-is in this regard,
> > > simply
> > > calling __trace_run_command() with 0 for the separator, while
> > > making a
> > > new trace_run_command_add_sep() version that can be used to pass
> > > in a
> > > separator.
> >
> > No, I don't like to tweak trace_run_command() that way, I'm OK to
> > delegate the argv_split() totally to the callback function (pass
> > the raw command string to the callback), OR __create_synth_event()
> > concatinate the fields argv and parse it by itself (I think the
> > latter is better and simpler).
> >
> > The ";" separator is not an additinal separator but that is higher
> > level separator for synthetic event. Suppose that you get the
> > following input;
> > "myevent int c ; char b"
> > "myevent int;c;char;b;"
> > These should not be same for the synthetic events. The fields must
> > be
> > splitted by ';' at first, and then each field should be parsed.
> >
> > So, I recommend you not to pass the additional separator to the
> > generic function, but (since it is only for synthetic event) to
> > reconstruct the raw command from argv, and parse it again with
> > ";" inside synthetic event parser. Then each fields parser can
> > check that is a wrong input or not.
> >
> > It will be something like
> >
> > __create_synth_event(argc, argv)
> > {
> > <event-name parsing>
> > argc--; argv++;
> >
> > raw_fields = concat_argv(argc, argv);// you can assume argv is
> > generated by argv_split().
> > vfields = split_fields(raw_fields, &nfields);// similar to
> > argv_split()
> > for (i = 0; i < nfields; i++)
> > parse_synth_field(vfields[i]);
> > }
> >
> > Then, you don't need to change the generic functions, and also
> > you will get the correct parser routines.
>
> If you think the split->concat->split process is redundant, I think
> we
> can remove trace_run_command() and just pass a raw command string to
> each
> event command parser as I said above.
>
> In this way, each event create function can parse the command by
> themselves.
> So you can parse the command as you like.
>
> Here is the patch which modifies trace-{k,u}probe and trace-dynevent
> side, but not changing synthetic event side yet. Will this help you?
>
Yeah, it was probably a mistake to try to shoehorn synthetic events
into the unmodified trace_run_command() in the first place.
This should work for me - I'll build on it. Thanks for supplying it!
Tom
> From 5aed03a8df0926d92f6585b3932fdc96324cb82d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> 2001
> From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2020 23:11:29 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH] tracing/dynevent: Delegate parsing to create
> function
>
> Delegate command parsing to each create function so that the
> command syntax can be customized.
>
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace.c | 23 ++---------------------
> kernel/trace/trace.h | 3 +--
> kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
> --
> kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.h | 4 ++--
> kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 33 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
> kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
> kernel/trace/trace_probe.h | 1 +
> kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 17 +++++++++++------
> 8 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 59 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> index 63c97012ed39..277d97220971 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> @@ -9367,30 +9367,11 @@ void ftrace_dump(enum ftrace_dump_mode
> oops_dump_mode)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ftrace_dump);
>
> -int trace_run_command(const char *buf, int (*createfn)(int, char
> **))
> -{
> - char **argv;
> - int argc, ret;
> -
> - argc = 0;
> - ret = 0;
> - argv = argv_split(GFP_KERNEL, buf, &argc);
> - if (!argv)
> - return -ENOMEM;
> -
> - if (argc)
> - ret = createfn(argc, argv);
> -
> - argv_free(argv);
> -
> - return ret;
> -}
> -
> #define WRITE_BUFSIZE 4096
>
> ssize_t trace_parse_run_command(struct file *file, const char __user
> *buffer,
> size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
> - int (*createfn)(int, char **))
> + int (*createfn)(const char *))
> {
> char *kbuf, *buf, *tmp;
> int ret = 0;
> @@ -9438,7 +9419,7 @@ ssize_t trace_parse_run_command(struct file
> *file, const char __user *buffer,
> if (tmp)
> *tmp = '\0';
>
> - ret = trace_run_command(buf, createfn);
> + ret = createfn(buf);
> if (ret)
> goto out;
> buf += size;
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.h b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> index 34e0c4d5a6e7..02d7c487a30b 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.h
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.h
> @@ -1982,10 +1982,9 @@ extern int tracing_set_cpumask(struct
> trace_array *tr,
>
> #define MAX_EVENT_NAME_LEN 64
>
> -extern int trace_run_command(const char *buf, int (*createfn)(int,
> char**));
> extern ssize_t trace_parse_run_command(struct file *file,
> const char __user *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *ppos,
> - int (*createfn)(int, char**));
> + int (*createfn)(const char *));
>
> extern unsigned int err_pos(char *cmd, const char *str);
> extern void tracing_log_err(struct trace_array *tr,
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
> b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
> index 5fa49cfd2bb6..af83bc5447fe 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.c
> @@ -31,23 +31,31 @@ int dyn_event_register(struct
> dyn_event_operations *ops)
> return 0;
> }
>
> -int dyn_event_release(int argc, char **argv, struct
> dyn_event_operations *type)
> +int dyn_event_release(const char *raw_command, struct
> dyn_event_operations *type)
> {
> struct dyn_event *pos, *n;
> char *system = NULL, *event, *p;
> - int ret = -ENOENT;
> + int argc, ret = -ENOENT;
> + char **argv;
> +
> + argv = argv_split(GFP_KERNEL, raw_command, &argc);
> + if (!argv)
> + return -ENOMEM;
>
> if (argv[0][0] == '-') {
> - if (argv[0][1] != ':')
> - return -EINVAL;
> + if (argv[0][1] != ':') {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> + }
> event = &argv[0][2];
> } else {
> event = strchr(argv[0], ':');
> - if (!event)
> - return -EINVAL;
> + if (!event) {
> + ret = -EINVAL;
> + goto out;
> + }
> event++;
> }
> - argc--; argv++;
>
> p = strchr(event, '/');
> if (p) {
> @@ -63,7 +71,7 @@ int dyn_event_release(int argc, char **argv, struct
> dyn_event_operations *type)
> if (type && type != pos->ops)
> continue;
> if (!pos->ops->match(system, event,
> - argc, (const char **)argv, pos))
> + argc - 1, (const char **)argv + 1,
> pos))
> continue;
>
> ret = pos->ops->free(pos);
> @@ -71,21 +79,22 @@ int dyn_event_release(int argc, char **argv,
> struct dyn_event_operations *type)
> break;
> }
> mutex_unlock(&event_mutex);
> -
> +out:
> + argv_free(argv);
> return ret;
> }
>
> -static int create_dyn_event(int argc, char **argv)
> +static int create_dyn_event(const char *raw_command)
> {
> struct dyn_event_operations *ops;
> int ret = -ENODEV;
>
> - if (argv[0][0] == '-' || argv[0][0] == '!')
> - return dyn_event_release(argc, argv, NULL);
> + if (raw_command[0] == '-' || raw_command[0] == '!')
> + return dyn_event_release(raw_command, NULL);
>
> mutex_lock(&dyn_event_ops_mutex);
> list_for_each_entry(ops, &dyn_event_ops_list, list) {
> - ret = ops->create(argc, (const char **)argv);
> + ret = ops->create(raw_command);
> if (!ret || ret != -ECANCELED)
> break;
> }
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.h
> b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.h
> index d6857a254ede..4f4e03df4cbb 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.h
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_dynevent.h
> @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ struct dyn_event;
> */
> struct dyn_event_operations {
> struct list_head list;
> - int (*create)(int argc, const char *argv[]);
> + int (*create)(const char *raw_command);
> int (*show)(struct seq_file *m, struct dyn_event *ev);
> bool (*is_busy)(struct dyn_event *ev);
> int (*free)(struct dyn_event *ev);
> @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ void *dyn_event_seq_start(struct seq_file *m,
> loff_t *pos);
> void *dyn_event_seq_next(struct seq_file *m, void *v, loff_t *pos);
> void dyn_event_seq_stop(struct seq_file *m, void *v);
> int dyn_events_release_all(struct dyn_event_operations *type);
> -int dyn_event_release(int argc, char **argv, struct
> dyn_event_operations *type);
> +int dyn_event_release(const char *raw_command, struct
> dyn_event_operations *type);
>
> /*
> * for_each_dyn_event - iterate over the dyn_event list
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
> b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
> index d04f380f6286..446273d7813d 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static int __init set_kprobe_boot_events(char *str)
> }
> __setup("kprobe_event=", set_kprobe_boot_events);
>
> -static int trace_kprobe_create(int argc, const char **argv);
> +static int trace_kprobe_create(const char *raw_command);
> static int trace_kprobe_show(struct seq_file *m, struct dyn_event
> *ev);
> static int trace_kprobe_release(struct dyn_event *ev);
> static bool trace_kprobe_is_busy(struct dyn_event *ev);
> @@ -710,7 +710,7 @@ static inline void sanitize_event_name(char
> *name)
> *name = '_';
> }
>
> -static int trace_kprobe_create(int argc, const char *argv[])
> +static int __trace_kprobe_create(int argc, const char *argv[])
> {
> /*
> * Argument syntax:
> @@ -909,20 +909,25 @@ static int trace_kprobe_create(int argc, const
> char *argv[])
> goto out;
> }
>
> -static int create_or_delete_trace_kprobe(int argc, char **argv)
> +static int trace_kprobe_create(const char *raw_command)
> +{
> + return trace_probe_create(raw_command, __trace_kprobe_create);
> +}
> +
> +static int create_or_delete_trace_kprobe(const char *raw_command)
> {
> int ret;
>
> - if (argv[0][0] == '-')
> - return dyn_event_release(argc, argv,
> &trace_kprobe_ops);
> + if (raw_command[0] == '-')
> + return dyn_event_release(raw_command,
> &trace_kprobe_ops);
>
> - ret = trace_kprobe_create(argc, (const char **)argv);
> + ret = trace_kprobe_create(raw_command);
> return ret == -ECANCELED ? -EINVAL : ret;
> }
>
> static int trace_kprobe_run_command(struct dynevent_cmd *cmd)
> {
> - return trace_run_command(cmd->seq.buffer,
> create_or_delete_trace_kprobe);
> + return create_or_delete_trace_kprobe(cmd->seq.buffer);
> }
>
> /**
> @@ -1083,7 +1088,7 @@ int kprobe_event_delete(const char *name)
>
> snprintf(buf, MAX_EVENT_NAME_LEN, "-:%s", name);
>
> - return trace_run_command(buf, create_or_delete_trace_kprobe);
> + return create_or_delete_trace_kprobe(buf);
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kprobe_event_delete);
>
> @@ -1886,7 +1891,7 @@ static __init void
> setup_boot_kprobe_events(void)
> if (p)
> *p++ = '\0';
>
> - ret = trace_run_command(cmd,
> create_or_delete_trace_kprobe);
> + ret = create_or_delete_trace_kprobe(cmd);
> if (ret)
> pr_warn("Failed to add event(%d): %s\n", ret,
> cmd);
> else
> @@ -1984,8 +1989,7 @@ static __init int
> kprobe_trace_self_tests_init(void)
>
> pr_info("Testing kprobe tracing: ");
>
> - ret = trace_run_command("p:testprobe
> kprobe_trace_selftest_target $stack $stack0 +0($stack)",
> - create_or_delete_trace_kprobe);
> + ret = create_or_delete_trace_kprobe("p:testprobe
> kprobe_trace_selftest_target $stack $stack0 +0($stack)");
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret)) {
> pr_warn("error on probing function entry.\n");
> warn++;
> @@ -2006,8 +2010,7 @@ static __init int
> kprobe_trace_self_tests_init(void)
> }
> }
>
> - ret = trace_run_command("r:testprobe2
> kprobe_trace_selftest_target $retval",
> - create_or_delete_trace_kprobe);
> + ret = create_or_delete_trace_kprobe("r:testprobe2
> kprobe_trace_selftest_target $retval");
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret)) {
> pr_warn("error on probing function return.\n");
> warn++;
> @@ -2080,13 +2083,13 @@ static __init int
> kprobe_trace_self_tests_init(void)
> trace_probe_event_call(&tk->tp), file);
> }
>
> - ret = trace_run_command("-:testprobe",
> create_or_delete_trace_kprobe);
> + ret = create_or_delete_trace_kprobe("-:testprobe");
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret)) {
> pr_warn("error on deleting a probe.\n");
> warn++;
> }
>
> - ret = trace_run_command("-:testprobe2",
> create_or_delete_trace_kprobe);
> + ret = create_or_delete_trace_kprobe("-:testprobe2");
> if (WARN_ON_ONCE(ret)) {
> pr_warn("error on deleting a probe.\n");
> warn++;
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
> index d2867ccc6aca..abc66d1cbf82 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
> @@ -1134,3 +1134,20 @@ bool trace_probe_match_command_args(struct
> trace_probe *tp,
> }
> return true;
> }
> +
> +int trace_probe_create(const char *raw_command, int (*createfn)(int,
> const char **))
> +{
> + int argc, ret;
> + char **argv;
> +
> + argv = argv_split(GFP_KERNEL, raw_command, &argc);
> + if (!argv)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> +
> + if (argc)
> + ret = createfn(argc, (const char **)argv);
> +
> + argv_free(argv);
> +
> + return ret;
> +}
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
> index 2f703a20c724..7ce4027089ee 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
> @@ -341,6 +341,7 @@ struct event_file_link
> *trace_probe_get_file_link(struct trace_probe *tp,
> int trace_probe_compare_arg_type(struct trace_probe *a, struct
> trace_probe *b);
> bool trace_probe_match_command_args(struct trace_probe *tp,
> int argc, const char **argv);
> +int trace_probe_create(const char *raw_command, int (*createfn)(int,
> const char **));
>
> #define trace_probe_for_each_link(pos, tp) \
> list_for_each_entry(pos, &(tp)->event->files, list)
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> index 3cf7128e1ad3..e6b56a65f80f 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c
> @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ struct uprobe_trace_entry_head {
> #define DATAOF_TRACE_ENTRY(entry, is_return) \
> ((void*)(entry) + SIZEOF_TRACE_ENTRY(is_return))
>
> -static int trace_uprobe_create(int argc, const char **argv);
> +static int trace_uprobe_create(const char *raw_command);
> static int trace_uprobe_show(struct seq_file *m, struct dyn_event
> *ev);
> static int trace_uprobe_release(struct dyn_event *ev);
> static bool trace_uprobe_is_busy(struct dyn_event *ev);
> @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ static int register_trace_uprobe(struct
> trace_uprobe *tu)
> * Argument syntax:
> * - Add uprobe: p|r[:[GRP/]EVENT] PATH:OFFSET[%return][(REF)]
> [FETCHARGS]
> */
> -static int trace_uprobe_create(int argc, const char **argv)
> +static int __trace_uprobe_create(int argc, const char **argv)
> {
> struct trace_uprobe *tu;
> const char *event = NULL, *group = UPROBE_EVENT_SYSTEM;
> @@ -716,14 +716,19 @@ static int trace_uprobe_create(int argc, const
> char **argv)
> return ret;
> }
>
> -static int create_or_delete_trace_uprobe(int argc, char **argv)
> +int trace_uprobe_create(const char *raw_command)
> +{
> + return trace_probe_create(raw_command, __trace_uprobe_create);
> +}
> +
> +static int create_or_delete_trace_uprobe(const char *raw_command)
> {
> int ret;
>
> - if (argv[0][0] == '-')
> - return dyn_event_release(argc, argv,
> &trace_uprobe_ops);
> + if (raw_command[0] == '-')
> + return dyn_event_release(raw_command,
> &trace_uprobe_ops);
>
> - ret = trace_uprobe_create(argc, (const char **)argv);
> + ret = trace_uprobe_create(raw_command);
> return ret == -ECANCELED ? -EINVAL : ret;
> }
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>
>
>
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