[RFC PATCH 4/7] tracing/probes: Add $current variable support

[Masami Hiramatsu (Google)]

From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Since we can use the BTF to cast value to a structure pointer type,
it is useful to introduce "$current" special variable support to
fetcharg.

User can define a fetcharg to access current task_struct properties
using BTF typecast (or dereference - but this may be complicated) e.g.

(task_struct)$current->cpus_ptr

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/trace/eprobetrace.rst |    1 +
 Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst |    1 +
 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst |    1 +
 kernel/trace/trace.c                |    2 +-
 kernel/trace/trace_probe.c          |    6 ++++++
 kernel/trace/trace_probe.h          |    1 +
 kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h     |    3 +++
 7 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/eprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/eprobetrace.rst
index 680e0af43d5d..dcf92d5b4175 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/eprobetrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/eprobetrace.rst
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ Synopsis of eprobe_events
   @ADDR		: Fetch memory at ADDR (ADDR should be in kernel)
   @SYM[+|-offs]	: Fetch memory at SYM +|- offs (SYM should be a data symbol)
   $comm		: Fetch current task comm.
+  $current	: Fetch the address of the current task_struct.
   +|-[u]OFFS(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- OFFS address.(\*3)(\*4)
   \IMM		: Store an immediate value to the argument.
   NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst
index 290a9e6f7491..3392cab016b3 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Synopsis of fprobe-events
   $argN         : Fetch the Nth function argument. (N >= 1) (\*2)
   $retval       : Fetch return value.(\*3)
   $comm         : Fetch current task comm.
+  $current      : Fetch the address of the current task_struct.
   +|-[u]OFFS(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- OFFS address.(\*4)(\*5)
   \IMM          : Store an immediate value to the argument.
   NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
index a62707e6a9f2..81e4fe38791d 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
   $argN		: Fetch the Nth function argument. (N >= 1) (\*1)
   $retval	: Fetch return value.(\*2)
   $comm		: Fetch current task comm.
+  $current      : Fetch the address of the current task_struct.
   +|-[u]OFFS(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- OFFS address.(\*3)(\*4)
   \IMM		: Store an immediate value to the argument.
   NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index 0e36af853199..e185a006cb08 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -4329,7 +4329,7 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
 	"\t           [(structname[,field])](fetcharg)->field[->field|.field...],\n"
 #endif
 #else
-	"\t           $stack<index>, $stack, $retval, $comm,\n"
+	"\t           $stack<index>, $stack, $retval, $comm, $current\n"
 #endif
 	"\t           +|-[u]<offset>(<fetcharg>), \\imm-value, \\\"imm-string\"\n"
 	"\t     kernel return probes support: $retval, $arg<N>, $comm\n"
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
index ff0b619e9a90..2c5deb1e1463 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
@@ -1235,6 +1235,12 @@ static int parse_probe_vars(char *orig_arg, const struct fetch_type *t,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	/* $current returns the address of the current task_struct. */
+	if (strcmp(arg, "current") == 0) {
+		code->op = FETCH_OP_CURRENT;
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
 	len = str_has_prefix(arg, "arg");
 	if (len) {
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
index b1a54da3c761..f2b31089779c 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ enum fetch_op {
 	FETCH_OP_FOFFS,		/* File offset: .immediate */
 	FETCH_OP_DATA,		/* Allocated data: .data */
 	FETCH_OP_EDATA,		/* Entry data: .offset */
+	FETCH_OP_CURRENT,	/* Current task_struct address */
 	// Stage 2 (dereference) op
 	FETCH_OP_DEREF,		/* Dereference: .offset */
 	FETCH_OP_UDEREF,	/* User-space Dereference: .offset */
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h b/kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h
index f39b37fcdb3b..f630930288d2 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe_tmpl.h
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ process_common_fetch_insn(struct fetch_insn *code, unsigned long *val)
 	case FETCH_OP_DATA:
 		*val = (unsigned long)code->data;
 		break;
+	case FETCH_OP_CURRENT:
+		*val = (unsigned long)current;
+		break;
 	default:
 		return -EILSEQ;
 	}