Re: [RFC PATCH v2 4/6] tracing/fprobe: Enable fprobe events with CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS

From: Florent Revest
Date: Wed Aug 09 2023 - 11:39:20 EST


On Wed, Aug 9, 2023 at 4:45 PM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > --- a/kernel/trace/trace_fprobe.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_fprobe.c
> > > @@ -132,25 +132,30 @@ static int
> > > process_fetch_insn(struct fetch_insn *code, void *rec, void *dest,
> > > void *base)
> > > {
> > > - struct pt_regs *regs = rec;
> > > - unsigned long val;
> > > + struct ftrace_regs *fregs = rec;
> > > + unsigned long val, *stackp;
> > > int ret;
> > >
> > > retry:
> > > /* 1st stage: get value from context */
> > > switch (code->op) {
> > > case FETCH_OP_STACK:
> > > - val = regs_get_kernel_stack_nth(regs, code->param);
> > > + stackp = (unsigned long *)ftrace_regs_get_stack_pointer(fregs);
> > > + if (((unsigned long)(stackp + code->param) & ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)) ==
> > > + ((unsigned long)stackp & ~(THREAD_SIZE - 1)))
> >
> > Maybe it'd be worth extracting a local
> > "ftrace_regs_get_kernel_stack_nth_addr" helper function and/or
> > "ftrace_regs_within_kernel_stack" ?
>
> Yeah, maybe we can make it a generic inline function in linux/ftrace.h.

Or even just above this function if there are low chances it would get
used elsewhere :)