Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] tracing/kprobe: Add kprobe_event= boot parameter

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Hi Anders,

Sorry for replying later.

On Tue, 28 May 2019 15:39:15 +0200
Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, 28 May 2019 at 14:36, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 28 May 2019 14:23:43 +0200
> > Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 22 May 2019 at 10:32, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Add kprobe_event= boot parameter to define kprobe events
> > > > at boot time.
> > > > The definition syntax is similar to tracefs/kprobe_events
> > > > interface, but use ',' and ';' instead of ' ' and '\n'
> > > > respectively. e.g.
> > > >
> > > >   kprobe_event=p,vfs_read,$arg1,$arg2
> > > >
> > > > This puts a probe on vfs_read with argument1 and 2, and
> > > > enable the new event.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > I built an arm64 kernel from todays linux-next tag next-20190528 and
> > > ran in to this issue when I booted it up in qemu:

Thank you for reporting!


> [    9.020354][    T1] Kprobe smoke test: started
> [    9.064132][    T1] Internal error: aarch64 BRK: f2000004 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [    9.067084][    T1] Modules linked in:
> [    9.068772][    T1] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted
> 5.2.0-rc2-next-20190528-00019-g9a6008710716 #8
> [    9.072893][    T1] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
> [    9.075143][    T1] pstate: 80400005 (Nzcv daif +PAN -UAO)
> [    9.077528][    T1] pc : kprobe_target+0x0/0x30
> [    9.079479][    T1] lr : init_test_probes+0x134/0x540
> [    9.081611][    T1] sp : ffff80003f51fbe0
> [    9.083331][    T1] x29: ffff80003f51fbe0 x28: ffff200013c17820
> [    9.085906][    T1] x27: ffff200015d3ab40 x26: ffff2000122bb120
> [    9.088491][    T1] x25: 0000000000000000 x24: ffff200013c08ae0
> [    9.091068][    T1] x23: ffff200015d39000 x22: ffff200013a15ac8
> [    9.093667][    T1] x21: 1ffff00007ea3f86 x20: ffff200015d39420
> [    9.096214][    T1] x19: ffff2000122bad20 x18: 0000000000001400
> [    9.098831][    T1] x17: 0000000000000000 x16: ffff80003f510040
> [    9.101410][    T1] x15: 0000000000001480 x14: 1ffff00007ea3ea2
> [    9.103963][    T1] x13: 00000000f1f1f1f1 x12: ffff040002782e0d
> [    9.106549][    T1] x11: 1fffe40002782e0c x10: ffff040002782e0c
> [    9.109120][    T1] x9 : 1fffe40002782e0c x8 : dfff200000000000
> [    9.111676][    T1] x7 : ffff040002782e0d x6 : ffff200013c17067
> [    9.114234][    T1] x5 : ffff80003f510040 x4 : 0000000000000000
> [    9.116843][    T1] x3 : ffff200010427508 x2 : 0000000000000000
> [    9.119409][    T1] x1 : ffff200010426e10 x0 : 0000000000a6326b
> [    9.121980][    T1] Call trace:
> [    9.123380][    T1]  kprobe_target+0x0/0x30
> [    9.125205][    T1]  init_kprobes+0x2b8/0x300
> [    9.127074][    T1]  do_one_initcall+0x4c0/0xa68
> [    9.129076][    T1]  kernel_init_freeable+0x3c4/0x4e4
> [    9.131234][    T1]  kernel_init+0x14/0x1fc
> [    9.133032][    T1]  ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18
> [    9.134908][    T1] Code: a9446bf9 f9402bfb a8d87bfd d65f03c0 (d4200080)
> [    9.137845][    T1] ---[ end trace 49243ee03446b072 ]---
> [    9.140114][    T1] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
> [    9.142684][    T1] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception ]---

Ah, I think you hit this in [1/2], not this change. 

I guess arm64's breakpoint handler is not initialized at postcore_initcall().
I have to check the arch depend implementation on arm64.


Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>