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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-11-10 16:35:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-11-10 16:35:04 -0800 |
| commit | 3ca112b71f35dd5d99fc4571a56b5fc6f0c15814 (patch) | |
| tree | d57ced35a41422ed28cd3e33c40af3ea05d104e4 /Documentation | |
| parent | 18553507f60f4f51f071644621a58836eb59e28c (diff) | |
| parent | f032c53bea6d2057c14553832d846be2f151cfb2 (diff) | |
Merge tag 'probes-fixes-v6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull probes fixes from Masami Hiramatsu:
- Documentation update: Add a note about argument and return value
fetching is the best effort because it depends on the type.
- objpool: Fix to make internal global variables static in
test_objpool.c.
- kprobes: Unify kprobes_exceptions_nofify() prototypes. There are the
same prototypes in asm/kprobes.h for some architectures, but some of
them are missing the prototype and it causes a warning. So move the
prototype into linux/kprobes.h.
- tracing: Fix to check the tracepoint event and return event at
parsing stage. The tracepoint event doesn't support %return but if
$retval exists, it will be converted to %return silently. This finds
that case and rejects it.
- tracing: Fix the order of the descriptions about the parameters of
__kprobe_event_gen_cmd_start() to be consistent with the argument
list of the function.
* tag 'probes-fixes-v6.7-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing/kprobes: Fix the order of argument descriptions
tracing: fprobe-event: Fix to check tracepoint event and return
kprobes: unify kprobes_exceptions_nofify() prototypes
lib: test_objpool: make global variables static
Documentation: tracing: Add a note about argument and retval access
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst | 8 |
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst index 8e9bebcf0a2e..e35e6b18df40 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst @@ -59,8 +59,12 @@ Synopsis of fprobe-events and bitfield are supported. (\*1) This is available only when BTF is enabled. - (\*2) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). - (\*3) only for return probe. + (\*2) 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 + the stack. But this only support the arguments via registers. + (\*3) only for return probe. Note that this is also best effort. Depending on the + return value type, it might be passed via a pair of registers. But this only + accesses one register. (\*4) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. (\*5) "u" means user-space dereference. diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst index 8a2dfee38145..bf9cecb69fc9 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst @@ -61,8 +61,12 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events (x8/x16/x32/x64), "char", "string", "ustring", "symbol", "symstr" and bitfield are supported. - (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). - (\*2) only for return probe. + (\*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 + the stack. But this only support the arguments via registers. + (\*2) only for return probe. Note that this is also best effort. Depending on the + return value type, it might be passed via a pair of registers. But this only + accesses one register. (\*3) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. (\*4) "u" means user-space dereference. See :ref:`user_mem_access`. |