perf probe: Support probing at absolute address

It should be useful to allow 'perf probe' probe at absolute offset of a
target. For example, when (u)probing at a instruction of a shared object
in a embedded system where debuginfo is not avaliable but we know the
offset of that instruction by manually digging.

This patch enables following perf probe command syntax:

  # perf probe 0xffffffff811e6615

And

  # perf probe /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.19.so 0xeb860

In the above example, we don't need a anchor symbol, so it is possible
to compute absolute addresses using other methods and then use 'perf
probe' to create the probing points.

v1 -> v2:
  Drop the leading '+' in cmdline;
  Allow uprobing at offset 0x0;
  Improve 'perf probe -l' result when uprobe at area without debuginfo.

v2 -> v3:
  Split bugfix to a separated patch.

Test result:

  # perf probe 0xffffffff8119d175 %ax
  # perf probe sys_write %ax
  # perf probe /lib64/libc-2.18.so 0x0 %ax
  # perf probe /lib64/libc-2.18.so 0x5 %ax
  # perf probe /lib64/libc-2.18.so 0xd8e40 %ax
  # perf probe /lib64/libc-2.18.so __write %ax
  # perf probe /lib64/libc-2.18.so 0xd8e49 %ax
  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events

  p:probe_libc/abs_0 /lib64/libc-2.18.so:0x          (null) arg1=%ax
  p:probe_libc/abs_5 /lib64/libc-2.18.so:0x0000000000000005 arg1=%ax
  p:probe_libc/abs_d8e40 /lib64/libc-2.18.so:0x00000000000d8e40 arg1=%ax
  p:probe_libc/__write /lib64/libc-2.18.so:0x00000000000d8e40 arg1=%ax
  p:probe_libc/abs_d8e49 /lib64/libc-2.18.so:0x00000000000d8e49 arg1=%ax

  # cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events

  p:probe/abs_ffffffff8119d175 0xffffffff8119d175 arg1=%ax
  p:probe/sys_write _text+1692016 arg1=%ax

  # perf probe -l

  Failed to find debug information for address 5
    probe:abs_ffffffff8119d175 (on sys_write+5 with arg1)
    probe:sys_write      (on sys_write with arg1)
    probe_libc:__write   (on @unix/syscall-template.S:81 in /lib64/libc-2.18.so with arg1)
    probe_libc:abs_0     (on 0x0 in /lib64/libc-2.18.so with arg1)
    probe_libc:abs_5     (on 0x5 in /lib64/libc-2.18.so with arg1)
    probe_libc:abs_d8e40 (on @unix/syscall-template.S:81 in /lib64/libc-2.18.so with arg1)
    probe_libc:abs_d8e49 (on __GI___libc_write+9 in /lib64/libc-2.18.so with arg1)

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1440586666-235233-7-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
index 7b80f8cb62b9..29c43c0680a8 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
@@ -553,24 +553,9 @@ static int find_variable(Dwarf_Die *sc_die, struct probe_finder *pf)
 	char buf[32], *ptr;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	if (!is_c_varname(pf->pvar->var)) {
-		/* Copy raw parameters */
-		pf->tvar->value = strdup(pf->pvar->var);
-		if (pf->tvar->value == NULL)
-			return -ENOMEM;
-		if (pf->pvar->type) {
-			pf->tvar->type = strdup(pf->pvar->type);
-			if (pf->tvar->type == NULL)
-				return -ENOMEM;
-		}
-		if (pf->pvar->name) {
-			pf->tvar->name = strdup(pf->pvar->name);
-			if (pf->tvar->name == NULL)
-				return -ENOMEM;
-		} else
-			pf->tvar->name = NULL;
-		return 0;
-	}
+	/* Copy raw parameters */
+	if (!is_c_varname(pf->pvar->var))
+		return copy_to_probe_trace_arg(pf->tvar, pf->pvar);
 
 	if (pf->pvar->name)
 		pf->tvar->name = strdup(pf->pvar->name);