Re: [PATCH v7 00/16] tracing: probeevent: Improve fetcharg features

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Hi Steve,

On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 16:16:48 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Masami,
> 
> Are you going to post another version of this patch set?

No, this is the latest one which I sent to LKML.
Oops, it was 2 month ago now...

Thank you,

> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:16:06 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is the 7th version of the fetch-arg improvement series.
> > This includes variable changes on fetcharg framework like,
> > 
> > - Add fetcharg testcases (syntax, argN, symbol, string and array)
> >   and probepoint testcase.
> > - Rewrite fetcharg framework with fetch_insn, switch-case based
> >   instead of function pointer.
> > - Add "symbol" type support, which shows symbol+offset instead of
> >   address value.
> > - Add "$argN" fetcharg, which fetches function parameters.
> >   (currently only for x86-64)
> > - Add array type support (including string arrary :) ) ,
> >   which enables to get fixed length array from probe-events.
> > - Add array type support for perf-probe, so that user can
> >   dump partial array entries.
> > 
> > V6 is here:
> >  https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/17/75
> > 
> > Changes from the v6 are here:
> >  [6/16]  - Fix to return an error if failed to fetch string and
> >         fill zero-length data_loc in error case.
> >  [11/16] - Update document for restructured text.
> >  [15/16] - Fix README test.
> >  [16/16] - Add type-casting description (and note) to documentation.
> > 
> > And rebased on the latest Steve's ftrace/core branch.
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Masami Hiramatsu (16):
> >       tracing: probeevent: Cleanup print argument functions
> >       tracing: probeevent: Cleanup argument field definition
> >       tracing: probeevent: Remove NOKPROBE_SYMBOL from print functions
> >       tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code
> >       tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch type tables
> >       tracing: probeevent: Return consumed bytes of dynamic area
> >       tracing: probeevent: Append traceprobe_ for exported function
> >       tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch_insn processing common part
> >       tracing: probeevent: Add symbol type
> >       x86: ptrace: Add function argument access API
> >       tracing: probeevent: Add $argN for accessing function args
> >       tracing: probeevent: Add array type support
> >       selftests: ftrace: Add a testcase for symbol type
> >       selftests: ftrace: Add a testcase for $argN with kprobe_event
> >       selftests: ftrace: Add a testcase for array type with kprobe_event
> >       perf-probe: Add array argument support
> > 
> > 
> >  Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst                |   23 +
> >  arch/Kconfig                                       |    7 
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig                                   |    1 
> >  arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h                      |   38 +
> >  kernel/trace/trace.c                               |    9 
> >  kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c                        |  358 ++++--------
> >  kernel/trace/trace_probe.c                         |  620 +++++++++-----------
> >  kernel/trace/trace_probe.h                         |  282 +++------
> >  kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h                    |  216 +++++++
> >  kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c                        |  176 ++----
> >  tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt            |   12 
> >  tools/perf/util/probe-event.c                      |   20 +
> >  tools/perf/util/probe-event.h                      |    2 
> >  tools/perf/util/probe-file.c                       |    5 
> >  tools/perf/util/probe-file.h                       |    1 
> >  tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c                     |   95 ++-
> >  .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_argN.tc       |   25 +
> >  .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_array.tc      |   92 +++
> >  .../ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_symbol.tc     |   77 ++
> >  19 files changed, 1127 insertions(+), 932 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_argN.tc
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_array.tc
> >  create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/ftrace/test.d/kprobe/kprobe_args_symbol.tc
> > 
> > --
> > Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>