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Message-Id: <20230128100533.38af2d809099cc8cecba8f3d@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2023 10:05:33 +0900
From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Donglin Peng <dolinux.peng@...il.com>, mhiramat@...nel.org,
xiehuan09@...il.com, linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] tracing/probe: add a char type to show the character
value of traced arguments
On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 17:38:00 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
>
> Looking back at emails that happened when I was off ;-)
>
> Masami, what's you thoughts about this patch?
Oops, I also missed this.
Thanks for updating the patch!
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
I'll pick this to the for-next.
Thank you!
>
> -- Steve
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2022 03:06:13 -0800
> Donglin Peng <dolinux.peng@...il.com> wrote:
>
> > There are scenes that we want to show the character value of traced
> > arguments other than a decimal or hexadecimal or string value for debug
> > convinience. I add a new type named 'char' to do it and a new test case
> > file named 'kprobe_args_char.tc' to do selftest for char type.
> >
> > For example:
> >
> > The to be traced function is 'void demo_func(char type, char *name);', we
> > can add a kprobe event as follows to show argument values as we want:
> >
> > echo 'p:myprobe demo_func $arg1:char +0($arg2):char[5]' > kprobe_events
> >
> > we will get the following trace log:
> >
> > ... myprobe: (demo_func+0x0/0x29) arg1='A' arg2={'b','p','f','1',''}
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Donglin Peng <dolinux.peng@...il.com>
> > Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@...el.com>
> > ---
> > Changes in v6:
> > - change "\'%c\'" to "'%c'" in trace_probe.c
> >
> > Changes in v5:
> > - wrap the output character with single quotes
> > - add a test case named kprobe_args_char.tc to do selftest
> >
> > Changes in v4:
> > - update the example in the commit log
> >
> > Changes in v3:
> > - update readme_msg
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - fix build warnings reported by kernel test robot
> > - modify commit log
> > ---
> > Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst | 3 +-
> > kernel/trace/trace.c | 2 +-
> > kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 2 +
> > kernel/trace/trace_probe.h | 1 +
> > .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_char.tc | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
> > 5 files changed, 53 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_char.tc
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
> > index 4274cc6a2f94..007972a3c5c4 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
> > +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
> > @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
> > NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
> > FETCHARG:TYPE : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types
> > (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), hexadecimal types
> > - (x8/x16/x32/x64), "string", "ustring" and bitfield
> > + (x8/x16/x32/x64), "char", "string", "ustring" and bitfield
> > are supported.
> >
> > (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0).
> > @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ E.g. 'x16[4]' means an array of x16 (2bytes hex) with 4 elements.
> > Note that the array can be applied to memory type fetchargs, you can not
> > apply it to registers/stack-entries etc. (for example, '$stack1:x8[8]' is
> > wrong, but '+8($stack):x8[8]' is OK.)
> > +Char type can be used to show the character value of traced arguments.
> > String type is a special type, which fetches a "null-terminated" string from
> > kernel space. This means it will fail and store NULL if the string container
> > has been paged out. "ustring" type is an alternative of string for user-space.
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > index 6d7ef130f57e..c602081e64c8 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
> > @@ -5615,7 +5615,7 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
> > "\t $stack<index>, $stack, $retval, $comm,\n"
> > #endif
> > "\t +|-[u]<offset>(<fetcharg>), \\imm-value, \\\"imm-string\"\n"
> > - "\t type: s8/16/32/64, u8/16/32/64, x8/16/32/64, string, symbol,\n"
> > + "\t type: s8/16/32/64, u8/16/32/64, x8/16/32/64, char, string, symbol,\n"
> > "\t b<bit-width>@<bit-offset>/<container-size>, ustring,\n"
> > "\t <type>\\[<array-size>\\]\n"
> > #ifdef CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
> > index bb2f95d7175c..794a21455396 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
> > @@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(x8, u8, "0x%x")
> > DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(x16, u16, "0x%x")
> > DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(x32, u32, "0x%x")
> > DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(x64, u64, "0x%Lx")
> > +DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(char, u8, "'%c'")
> >
> > int PRINT_TYPE_FUNC_NAME(symbol)(struct trace_seq *s, void *data, void *ent)
> > {
> > @@ -93,6 +94,7 @@ static const struct fetch_type probe_fetch_types[] = {
> > ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_ALIAS(x16, u16, u16, 0),
> > ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_ALIAS(x32, u32, u32, 0),
> > ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_ALIAS(x64, u64, u64, 0),
> > + ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_ALIAS(char, u8, u8, 0),
> > ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_ALIAS(symbol, ADDR_FETCH_TYPE, ADDR_FETCH_TYPE, 0),
> >
> > ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_END
> > diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
> > index de38f1c03776..8c86aaa8b0c9 100644
> > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
> > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
> > @@ -164,6 +164,7 @@ DECLARE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(x16);
> > DECLARE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(x32);
> > DECLARE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(x64);
> >
> > +DECLARE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(char);
> > DECLARE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(string);
> > DECLARE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(symbol);
> >
> > diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_char.tc b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_char.tc
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..285b4770efad
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_char.tc
> > @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
> > +#!/bin/sh
> > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> > +# description: Kprobe event char type argument
> > +# requires: kprobe_events
> > +
> > +case `uname -m` in
> > +x86_64)
> > + ARG1=%di
> > +;;
> > +i[3456]86)
> > + ARG1=%ax
> > +;;
> > +aarch64)
> > + ARG1=%x0
> > +;;
> > +arm*)
> > + ARG1=%r0
> > +;;
> > +ppc64*)
> > + ARG1=%r3
> > +;;
> > +ppc*)
> > + ARG1=%r3
> > +;;
> > +s390*)
> > + ARG1=%r2
> > +;;
> > +mips*)
> > + ARG1=%r4
> > +;;
> > +*)
> > + echo "Please implement other architecture here"
> > + exit_untested
> > +esac
> > +
> > +: "Test get argument (1)"
> > +echo "p:testprobe tracefs_create_dir arg1=+0(${ARG1}):char" > kprobe_events
> > +echo 1 > events/kprobes/testprobe/enable
> > +echo "p:test $FUNCTION_FORK" >> kprobe_events
> > +grep -qe "testprobe.* arg1='t'" trace
> > +
> > +echo 0 > events/kprobes/testprobe/enable
> > +: "Test get argument (2)"
> > +echo "p:testprobe tracefs_create_dir arg1=+0(${ARG1}):char arg2=+0(${ARG1}):char[4]" > kprobe_events
> > +echo 1 > events/kprobes/testprobe/enable
> > +echo "p:test $FUNCTION_FORK" >> kprobe_events
> > +grep -qe "testprobe.* arg1='t' arg2={'t','e','s','t'}" trace
>
--
Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
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