Re: [PATCH 2/4] KVM: Use __print_hex() for kvm_emulate_insntracepoint

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Jun 27 2012 - 08:49:33 EST


[ Added Avi]

On Wed, 2012-06-27 at 09:41 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote:
> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@xxxxxxx>
>
> The kvm_emulate_insn tracepoint used __print_insn()
> for printing its instructions. However it makes the
> format of the event hard to parse as it reveals TP
> internals.
>
> Fortunately, kernel provides __print_hex for almost
> same purpose, we can use it instead of open coding
> it. The user-space can be changed to parse it later.
>
> That means raw kernel tracing will not be affected
> by this change:
>
> # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
> # cat events/kvm/kvm_emulate_insn/format
> name: kvm_emulate_insn
> ID: 29
> format:
> ...
> print fmt: "%x:%llx:%s (%s)%s", REC->csbase, REC->rip, __print_hex(REC->insn, REC->len), \
> __print_symbolic(REC->flags, { 0, "real" }, { (1 << 0) | (1 << 1), "vm16" }, \
> { (1 << 0), "prot16" }, { (1 << 0) | (1 << 2), "prot32" }, { (1 << 0) | (1 << 3), "prot64" }), \
> REC->failed ? " failed" : ""
>
> # echo 1 > events/kvm/kvm_emulate_insn/enable
> # cat trace
> # tracer: nop
> #
> # entries-in-buffer/entries-written: 2183/2183 #P:12
> #
> # _-----=> irqs-off
> # / _----=> need-resched
> # | / _---=> hardirq/softirq
> # || / _--=> preempt-depth
> # ||| / delay
> # TASK-PID CPU# |||| TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
> # | | | |||| | |
> qemu-kvm-1782 [002] ...1 140.931636: kvm_emulate_insn: 0:c102fa25:89 10 (prot32)
> qemu-kvm-1781 [004] ...1 140.931637: kvm_emulate_insn: 0:c102fa25:89 10 (prot32)

Avi, can you give your Acked-by for this change?

-- Steve

>
> Cc: kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-wfw6y3b9ugtey8snaow9nmg5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/kvm/trace.h | 12 +-----------
> include/trace/ftrace.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/trace.h b/arch/x86/kvm/trace.h
> index 911d2641f14c..62d02e3c3ed6 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/kvm/trace.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/trace.h
> @@ -710,16 +710,6 @@ TRACE_EVENT(kvm_skinit,
> __entry->rip, __entry->slb)
> );
>
> -#define __print_insn(insn, ilen) ({ \
> - int i; \
> - const char *ret = p->buffer + p->len; \
> - \
> - for (i = 0; i < ilen; ++i) \
> - trace_seq_printf(p, " %02x", insn[i]); \
> - trace_seq_printf(p, "%c", 0); \
> - ret; \
> - })
> -
> #define KVM_EMUL_INSN_F_CR0_PE (1 << 0)
> #define KVM_EMUL_INSN_F_EFL_VM (1 << 1)
> #define KVM_EMUL_INSN_F_CS_D (1 << 2)
> @@ -786,7 +776,7 @@ TRACE_EVENT(kvm_emulate_insn,
>
> TP_printk("%x:%llx:%s (%s)%s",
> __entry->csbase, __entry->rip,
> - __print_insn(__entry->insn, __entry->len),
> + __print_hex(__entry->insn, __entry->len),
> __print_symbolic(__entry->flags,
> kvm_trace_symbol_emul_flags),
> __entry->failed ? " failed" : ""
> diff --git a/include/trace/ftrace.h b/include/trace/ftrace.h
> index 769724944fc6..c6bc2faaf261 100644
> --- a/include/trace/ftrace.h
> +++ b/include/trace/ftrace.h
> @@ -571,6 +571,7 @@ static inline void ftrace_test_probe_##call(void) \
>
> #undef __print_flags
> #undef __print_symbolic
> +#undef __print_hex
> #undef __get_dynamic_array
> #undef __get_str
>


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