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perf-probe: Add user memory access attribute support

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Add user memory access attribute for kprobe event arguments.
If a given 'local variable' is in user-space, User can
specify memory access method by '@user' suffix. This is
not only for string but also for data structure.

If we access a field of data structure in user memory from
kernel on some arch, it will fail. e.g.

 perf probe -a "sched_setscheduler param->sched_priority"

This will fail to access the "param->sched_priority" because
the param is __user pointer. Instead, we can now specify
@user suffix for such argument.

 perf probe -a "sched_setscheduler param->sched_priority@user"

Note that kernel memory access with "@user" must always fail
on any arch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789874562.26965.10836126971405890891.stgit@devnote2

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Masami Hiramatsu
2019-05-15 14:39:05 +09:00
committed by Steven Rostedt (VMware)
parent bdf2b8cbf0
commit 1e032f7cfa
6 changed files with 35 additions and 8 deletions
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@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ struct probe_trace_point {
struct probe_trace_arg_ref {
struct probe_trace_arg_ref *next; /* Next reference */
long offset; /* Offset value */
bool user_access; /* User-memory access */
};
/* kprobe-tracer and uprobe-tracer tracing argument */
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ struct perf_probe_arg {
char *var; /* Variable name */
char *type; /* Type name */
struct perf_probe_arg_field *field; /* Structure fields */
bool user_access; /* User-memory access */
};
/* Perf probe probing event (point + arg) */