[tip: perf/urgent] perf trace: Resolve prctl's 'option' arg strings to numbers

From: tip-bot2 for Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Sat Feb 15 2020 - 03:42:30 EST


The following commit has been merged into the perf/urgent branch of tip:

Commit-ID: d7a07b293216e5561705303751bc0d213e9fb328
Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/d7a07b293216e5561705303751bc0d213e9fb328
Author: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 15:54:08 -03:00
Committer: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitterDate: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 16:41:50 -03:00

perf trace: Resolve prctl's 'option' arg strings to numbers

# perf trace -e syscalls:sys_enter_prctl --filter="option==SET_NAME"
0.000 Socket Thread/3860 syscalls:sys_enter_prctl(option: SET_NAME, arg2: 0x7fc50b9733e8)
0.053 SSL Cert #78/3860 syscalls:sys_enter_prctl(option: SET_NAME, arg2: 0x7fc50b9733e8)
^C #

If one uses '-v' with 'perf trace', we can see the filter it puts in
place:

New filter for syscalls:sys_enter_prctl: (option==0xf) && (common_pid != 3859 && common_pid != 2757)

We still need to allow using plain '-e prctl' and have this turn into
creating a 'syscalls:sys_enter_prctl' event so that the filter can be
applied only to it as right now '-e prctl' ends up using the
'raw_syscalls:sys_enter/sys_exit'.

The end goal is to have something like:

# perf trace -e prctl/option==SET_NAME/

And have that use tracepoint filters or eBPF ones.

Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christian Brauner <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mike Christie <mchristi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
index 46a72ec..01d5420 100644
--- a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
+++ b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c
@@ -1065,7 +1065,9 @@ static struct syscall_fmt syscall_fmts[] = {
{ .name = "poll", .timeout = true, },
{ .name = "ppoll", .timeout = true, },
{ .name = "prctl",
- .arg = { [0] = { .scnprintf = SCA_PRCTL_OPTION, /* option */ },
+ .arg = { [0] = { .scnprintf = SCA_PRCTL_OPTION, /* option */
+ .strtoul = STUL_STRARRAY,
+ .parm = &strarray__prctl_options, },
[1] = { .scnprintf = SCA_PRCTL_ARG2, /* arg2 */ },
[2] = { .scnprintf = SCA_PRCTL_ARG3, /* arg3 */ }, }, },
{ .name = "pread", .alias = "pread64", },