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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst index 235ce2ab131a..fbb314bfa112 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst @@ -51,15 +51,17 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events $argN : Fetch the Nth function argument. (N >= 1) (\*1) $retval : Fetch return value.(\*2) $comm : Fetch current task comm. - +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(\*3) + +|-[u]OFFS(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- OFFS address.(\*3)(\*4) NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG. FETCHARG:TYPE : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), hexadecimal types - (x8/x16/x32/x64), "string" and bitfield are supported. + (x8/x16/x32/x64), "string", "ustring" and bitfield + are supported. (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). (\*2) only for return probe. (\*3) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. + (\*4) "u" means user-space dereference. See :ref:`user_mem_access`. Types ----- @@ -77,7 +79,8 @@ apply it to registers/stack-entries etc. (for example, '$stack1:x8[8]' is wrong, but '+8($stack):x8[8]' is OK.) String type is a special type, which fetches a "null-terminated" string from kernel space. This means it will fail and store NULL if the string container -has been paged out. +has been paged out. "ustring" type is an alternative of string for user-space. +See :ref:`user_mem_access` for more info.. The string array type is a bit different from other types. For other base types, <base-type>[1] is equal to <base-type> (e.g. +0(%di):x32[1] is same as +0(%di):x32.) But string[1] is not equal to string. The string type itself @@ -92,6 +95,25 @@ Symbol type('symbol') is an alias of u32 or u64 type (depends on BITS_PER_LONG) which shows given pointer in "symbol+offset" style. For $comm, the default type is "string"; any other type is invalid. +.. _user_mem_access: +User Memory Access +------------------ +Kprobe events supports user-space memory access. For that purpose, you can use +either user-space dereference syntax or 'ustring' type. + +The user-space dereference syntax allows you to access a field of a data +structure in user-space. This is done by adding the "u" prefix to the +dereference syntax. For example, +u4(%si) means it will read memory from the +address in the register %si offset by 4, and the memory is expected to be in +user-space. You can use this for strings too, e.g. +u0(%si):string will read +a string from the address in the register %si that is expected to be in user- +space. 'ustring' is a shortcut way of performing the same task. That is, ++0(%si):ustring is equivalent to +u0(%si):string. + +Note that kprobe-event provides the user-memory access syntax but it doesn't +use it transparently. This means if you use normal dereference or string type +for user memory, it might fail, and may always fail on some archs. The user +has to carefully check if the target data is in kernel or user space. Per-Probe Event Filtering ------------------------- @@ -124,6 +146,20 @@ You can check the total number of probe hits and probe miss-hits via The first column is event name, the second is the number of probe hits, the third is the number of probe miss-hits. +Kernel Boot Parameter +--------------------- +You can add and enable new kprobe events when booting up the kernel by +"kprobe_event=" parameter. The parameter accepts a semicolon-delimited +kprobe events, which format is similar to the kprobe_events. +The difference is that the probe definition parameters are comma-delimited +instead of space. For example, adding myprobe event on do_sys_open like below + + p:myprobe do_sys_open dfd=%ax filename=%dx flags=%cx mode=+4($stack) + +should be below for kernel boot parameter (just replace spaces with comma) + + p:myprobe,do_sys_open,dfd=%ax,filename=%dx,flags=%cx,mode=+4($stack) + Usage examples -------------- @@ -189,6 +225,13 @@ events, you need to enable it. echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/myprobe/enable echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/myretprobe/enable +Use the following command to start tracing in an interval. +:: + + # echo 1 > tracing_on + Open something... + # echo 0 > tracing_on + And you can see the traced information via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace. :: |