Re: [PATCH V2 03/13] kprobes: Add symbols for kprobe insn pages

From: Adrian Hunter
Date: Thu Feb 27 2020 - 02:14:59 EST


On 26/02/20 5:22 pm, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 02:49:39PM +0200, Adrian Hunter wrote:
>> Symbols are needed for tools to describe instruction addresses. Pages
>> allocated for kprobe's purposes need symbols to be created for them.
>> Add such symbols to be visible via /proc/kallsyms.
>
> I can't see kprobes in /proc/kallsyms, I tried making some with
> perf probe and some of bcc-tools.. I'm greping for [kprobe]
>
> could you put to changelog soem example /proc/kallsyms output?

Will do. See also the examples in patch 13.

For kprobes you need:

# CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER is not set

otherwise the kprobes are done by ftrace.