Hi, Here is the 6th version of improve fprobe and add a basic fprobe event support for ftrace (tracefs) and perf. Here is the previous version. https://lore.kernel.org/all/168198993129.1795549.8306571027057356176.stgit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ I applied some feedbacks about BPF and BTF related code, and fix patch description. Major code changes are dropping the bpf_prog call [2/10], Making find_tracepoint() static [4/10], and using bpf_get_btf_vmlinux() [6/10]. This version also added a documentation about the fprobe events [10/10]. You can also get this series from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mhiramat/linux.git topic/fprobe-event-ext With this fprobe events, we can continue to trace function entry/exit even if the CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE is not available. Since CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE requires the CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS, it is not available if the architecture only supports CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS (e.g. arm64). And that means kprobe events can not probe function entry/exit effectively on such architecture. But this problem can be solved if the dynamic events supports fprobe events because fprobe events doesn't use kprobe but ftrace via fprobe. FPROBE EVENTS ============= Fprobe events allows user to add new events on the entry and exit of kernel functions (which can be ftraced). Unlike kprobe events, the fprobe events can only probe the function entry and exit, and it can only trace the function args, return value, and stacks. (no registers) For probing function body, users can continue to use the kprobe events. The tracepoint probe events (tprobe events) also allows user to add new events dynamically on the tracepoint. Most of the tracepoint already has trace-events, so this feature is useful if you only want to know a specific parameter, or trace the tracepoints which has no trace-events (e.g. sched_*_tp tracepoints only exposes the tracepoints.) The fprobe events syntax is; f[:[GRP/][EVENT]] FUNCTION [FETCHARGS] f[MAXACTIVE][:[GRP/][EVENT]] FUNCTION%return [FETCHARGS] And tracepoint probe events syntax is; t[:[GRP/][EVENT]] TRACEPOINT [FETCHARGS] This series includes BTF argument support for fprobe/tracepoint events, and kprobe events. This allows us to fetch a specific function parameter by name, and all parameters by '$$args'. Note that enabling this feature, you need to enable CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL and confirm that your arch supports CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API. E.g. # echo 't kfree ptr' >> dynamic_events # echo 'f kfree object' >> dynamic_events # cat dynamic_events t:tracepoints/kfree kfree ptr=ptr f:fprobes/kfree__entry kfree object=object # echo 1 > events/fprobes/enable # echo 1 > events/tracepoints/enable # echo > trace # head -n 20 trace | tail # TASK-PID CPU# ||||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION # | | | ||||| | | tail-84 [000] ..... 1324.561958: kfree__entry: (kfree+0x4/0x140) object=0xffff888006383c00 tail-84 [000] ...1. 1324.561961: kfree: (__probestub_kfree+0x4/0x10) ptr=0xffff888006383c00 tail-84 [000] ..... 1324.561988: kfree__entry: (kfree+0x4/0x140) object=0x0 tail-84 [000] ...1. 1324.561988: kfree: (__probestub_kfree+0x4/0x10) ptr=0x0 tail-84 [000] ..... 1324.561989: kfree__entry: (kfree+0x4/0x140) object=0xffff88800671e600 tail-84 [000] ...1. 1324.561989: kfree: (__probestub_kfree+0x4/0x10) ptr=0xffff88800671e600 tail-84 [000] ..... 1324.562368: kfree__entry: (kfree+0x4/0x140) object=0xffff8880065e0580 tail-84 [000] ...1. 1324.562369: kfree: (__probestub_kfree+0x4/0x10) ptr=0xffff8880065e0580 Thank you, --- Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (10): fprobe: Pass return address to the handlers tracing/probes: Add fprobe events for tracing function entry and exit. selftests/ftrace: Add fprobe related testcases tracing/probes: Add tracepoint support on fprobe_events tracing/probes: Move event parameter fetching code to common parser tracing/probes: Support function parameters if BTF is available tracing/probes: Add $$args meta argument for all function args selftests/ftrace: Add tracepoint probe test case selftests/ftrace: Add BTF arguments test cases Documentation: tracing/probes: Add fprobe event tracing document Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst | 184 +++ Documentation/trace/index.rst | 1 include/linux/fprobe.h | 11 include/linux/rethook.h | 2 include/linux/trace_events.h | 3 include/linux/tracepoint-defs.h | 1 include/linux/tracepoint.h | 5 kernel/kprobes.c | 1 kernel/trace/Kconfig | 25 kernel/trace/Makefile | 1 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 6 kernel/trace/fprobe.c | 17 kernel/trace/rethook.c | 3 kernel/trace/trace.c | 13 kernel/trace/trace.h | 11 kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c | 44 - kernel/trace/trace_fprobe.c | 1194 ++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 33 - kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 440 ++++++- kernel/trace/trace_probe.h | 42 + kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 8 lib/test_fprobe.c | 10 samples/fprobe/fprobe_example.c | 6 .../ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_btfarg.tc | 54 + .../ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_fprobe.tc | 26 .../ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_tprobe.tc | 27 .../ftrace/test.d/dynevent/fprobe_syntax_errors.tc | 98 ++ .../ftrace/test.d/dynevent/tprobe_syntax_errors.tc | 82 + .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_syntax_errors.tc | 12 29 files changed, 2221 insertions(+), 139 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_fprobe.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_btfarg.tc create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_fprobe.tc create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_tprobe.tc create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/fprobe_syntax_errors.tc create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/dynevent/tprobe_syntax_errors.tc -- Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
