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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-05-17 18:29:30 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-05-17 18:29:30 -0700 |
commit | 70a663205d5085f1d82f7058e9419ff7612e9396 (patch) | |
tree | d4d6bc7a940acda9c0a359fe2df1bee3411316d9 /Documentation | |
parent | e9d682518076b38ae76f9fe45ba4fa9e324274f7 (diff) | |
parent | 1a7d0890dd4a502a202aaec792a6c04e6e049547 (diff) |
Merge tag 'probes-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
- tracing/probes: Add new pseudo-types %pd and %pD support for dumping
dentry name from 'struct dentry *' and file name from 'struct file *'
- uprobes performance optimizations:
- Speed up the BPF uprobe event by delaying the fetching of the
uprobe event arguments that are not used in BPF
- Avoid locking by speculatively checking whether uprobe event is
valid
- Reduce lock contention by using read/write_lock instead of
spinlock for uprobe list operation. This improved BPF uprobe
benchmark result 43% on average
- rethook: Remove non-fatal warning messages when tracing stack from
BPF and skip rcu_is_watching() validation in rethook if possible
- objpool: Optimize objpool (which is used by kretprobes and fprobe as
rethook backend storage) by inlining functions and avoid caching
nr_cpu_ids because it is a const value
- fprobe: Add entry/exit callbacks types (code cleanup)
- kprobes: Check ftrace was killed in kprobes if it uses ftrace
* tag 'probes-v6.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
kprobe/ftrace: bail out if ftrace was killed
selftests/ftrace: Fix required features for VFS type test case
objpool: cache nr_possible_cpus() and avoid caching nr_cpu_ids
objpool: enable inlining objpool_push() and objpool_pop() operations
rethook: honor CONFIG_FTRACE_VALIDATE_RCU_IS_WATCHING in rethook_try_get()
ftrace: make extra rcu_is_watching() validation check optional
uprobes: reduce contention on uprobes_tree access
rethook: Remove warning messages printed for finding return address of a frame.
fprobe: Add entry/exit callbacks types
selftests/ftrace: add fprobe test cases for VFS type "%pd" and "%pD"
selftests/ftrace: add kprobe test cases for VFS type "%pd" and "%pD"
Documentation: tracing: add new type '%pd' and '%pD' for kprobe
tracing/probes: support '%pD' type for print struct file's name
tracing/probes: support '%pd' type for print struct dentry's name
uprobes: add speculative lockless system-wide uprobe filter check
uprobes: prepare uprobe args buffer lazily
uprobes: encapsulate preparation of uprobe args buffer
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst index 69cb7776ae99..3b6791c17e9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst @@ -58,8 +58,9 @@ 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), "char", "string", "ustring", "symbol", "symstr" - and bitfield are supported. + (x8/x16/x32/x64), VFS layer common type(%pd/%pD), "char", + "string", "ustring", "symbol", "symstr" and bitfield are + supported. (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). Note, this argument access is best effort, because depending on the argument type, it may be passed on @@ -122,6 +123,9 @@ With 'symstr' type, you can filter the event with wildcard pattern of the symbols, and you don't need to solve symbol name by yourself. For $comm, the default type is "string"; any other type is invalid. +VFS layer common type(%pd/%pD) is a special type, which fetches dentry's or +file's name from struct dentry's address or struct file's address. + .. _user_mem_access: User Memory Access |