tracing/probe: Support user-space dereference

Support user-space dereference syntax for probe event arguments
to dereference the data-structure or array in user-space.

The syntax is just adding 'u' before an offset value.

 +|-u<OFFSET>(<FETCHARG>)

e.g. +u8(%ax), +u0(+0(%si))

For example, if you probe do_sched_setscheduler(pid, policy,
param) and record param->sched_priority, you can add new
probe as below;

 p do_sched_setscheduler priority=+u0($arg3)

Note that kprobe event provides this and it doesn't change the
dereference method automatically because we do not know whether
the given address is in userspace or kernel on some archs.

So as same as "ustring", this is an option for user, who has to
carefully choose the dereference method.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789872187.26965.4468456816590888687.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>
This commit is contained in:
Masami Hiramatsu
2019-05-15 14:38:42 +09:00
committed by Steven Rostedt (VMware)
parent 88903c4643
commit e65f7ae7f4
8 changed files with 81 additions and 23 deletions

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@@ -140,6 +140,13 @@ probe_mem_read(void *dest, void *src, size_t size)
return copy_from_user(dest, vaddr, size) ? -EFAULT : 0;
}
static nokprobe_inline int
probe_mem_read_user(void *dest, void *src, size_t size)
{
return probe_mem_read(dest, src, size);
}
/*
* Fetch a null-terminated string. Caller MUST set *(u32 *)dest with max
* length and relative data location.