Currently, there is a problem with tracex2, as it doesn't print the histogram properly and the results are misleading. (all results report as 0) The problem is caused by a change in arguments of the function to which the kprobe connects. This tracex2 bpf program uses kprobe (attached to __x64_sys_write) to figure out the size of the write system call. In order to achieve this, the third argument 'count' must be intact. The following is a prototype of the sys_write variant. (checked with pfunct) ~/git/linux$ pfunct -P fs/read_write.o | grep sys_write ssize_t ksys_write(unsigned int fd, const char * buf, size_t count); long int __x64_sys_write(const struct pt_regs * regs); ... cross compile with s390x ... long int __s390_sys_write(struct pt_regs * regs); Since the nature of SYSCALL_WRAPPER function wraps the argument once, additional process of argument extraction is required to properly parse the argument. #define BPF_KSYSCALL(name, args...) ... snip ... struct pt_regs *regs = LINUX_HAS_SYSCALL_WRAPPER \ ? (struct pt_regs *)PT_REGS_PARM1(ctx) \ : ctx; \ In order to fix this problem, the BPF_SYSCALL macro has been used. This reduces the hassle of parsing arguments from pt_regs. Since the macro uses the CORE version of argument extraction, additional portability comes too. Signed-off-by: Daniel T. Lee <danieltimlee@xxxxxxxxx> --- samples/bpf/tracex2.bpf.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/samples/bpf/tracex2.bpf.c b/samples/bpf/tracex2.bpf.c index a712eefc742e..0a5c75b367be 100644 --- a/samples/bpf/tracex2.bpf.c +++ b/samples/bpf/tracex2.bpf.c @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ #include <linux/version.h> #include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h> #include <bpf/bpf_tracing.h> +#include <bpf/bpf_core_read.h> struct { __uint(type, BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH); @@ -76,14 +77,13 @@ struct { } my_hist_map SEC(".maps"); SEC("ksyscall/write") -int bpf_prog3(struct pt_regs *ctx) +int BPF_KSYSCALL(bpf_prog3, unsigned int fd, const char *buf, size_t count) { - long write_size = PT_REGS_PARM3(ctx); long init_val = 1; long *value; struct hist_key key; - key.index = log2l(write_size); + key.index = log2l(count); key.pid_tgid = bpf_get_current_pid_tgid(); key.uid_gid = bpf_get_current_uid_gid(); bpf_get_current_comm(&key.comm, sizeof(key.comm)); -- 2.34.1