[PATCH tracing/kprobes 6/6] tracing/kprobes: Disable kprobe events bydefault

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Disable newly created kprobe events by default, not to disturb
another user using ftrace. "Disturb" means when someone using
ftrace and another user tries to use perf-tools, (in near
future) if he defines new kprobe event via perf-tools, then new
events will mess up the frace buffer. I think that's ugly.


Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
c: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@xxxxxxxxx>
---

 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt |   11 +++++++++--
 kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c         |    4 ++--
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
index 6521681..9b8f7c6 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
@@ -122,8 +122,15 @@ print fmt: "(%lx) dfd=%lx filename=%lx flags=%lx mode=%lx", REC->ip, REC->dfd, R
 
   echo > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
 
- This clears all probe points. and you can see the traced information via
-/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace.
+ This clears all probe points.
+
+ Right after definition, each event is disabled by default. For tracing these
+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
+
+ And you can see the traced information via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace.
 
   cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
 # tracer: nop
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
index d8db935..f6821f1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ static int register_trace_probe(struct trace_probe *tp)
 		goto end;
 	}
 
-	tp->flags = TP_FLAG_TRACE;
+	tp->rp.kp.flags |= KPROBE_FLAG_DISABLED;
 	if (probe_is_return(tp))
 		ret = register_kretprobe(&tp->rp);
 	else
@@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static int register_probe_event(struct trace_probe *tp)
 	call->id = register_ftrace_event(&tp->event);
 	if (!call->id)
 		return -ENODEV;
-	call->enabled = 1;
+	call->enabled = 0;
 	call->regfunc = probe_event_enable;
 	call->unregfunc = probe_event_disable;
 


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx
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