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author | Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-04-11 16:00:43 +0530 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2012-05-07 14:30:17 +0200 |
commit | f3f096cfedf8113380c56fc855275cc75cd8cf55 (patch) | |
tree | b8d0553afc8cebf6dd320d094206e93df5d95794 /Documentation/trace | |
parent | 8ab83f56475ec9151645a888dfe1941f4a92091d (diff) | |
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tracing: Provide trace events interface for uprobes
Implements trace_event support for uprobes. In its current form
it can be used to put probes at a specified offset in a file and
dump the required registers when the code flow reaches the
probed address.
The following example shows how to dump the instruction pointer
and %ax a register at the probed text address. Here we are
trying to probe zfree in /bin/zsh:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/
# cat /proc/`pgrep zsh`/maps | grep /bin/zsh | grep r-xp
00400000-0048a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130904 /bin/zsh
# objdump -T /bin/zsh | grep -w zfree
0000000000446420 g DF .text 0000000000000012 Base
zfree # echo 'p /bin/zsh:0x46420 %ip %ax' > uprobe_events
# cat uprobe_events
p:uprobes/p_zsh_0x46420 /bin/zsh:0x0000000000046420
# echo 1 > events/uprobes/enable
# sleep 20
# echo 0 > events/uprobes/enable
# cat trace
# tracer: nop
#
# TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION
# | | | | |
zsh-24842 [006] 258544.995456: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79
zsh-24842 [007] 258545.000270: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79
zsh-24842 [002] 258545.043929: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79
zsh-24842 [004] 258547.046129: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79
Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120411103043.GB29437@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/trace')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt | 95 |
1 files changed, 95 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..eae40a003ee --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/trace/uprobetracer.txt @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ + Uprobe-tracer: Uprobe-based Event Tracing + ========================================= + Documentation written by Srikar Dronamraju + +Overview +-------- +Uprobe based trace events are similar to kprobe based trace events. +To enable this feature, build your kernel with CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y. + +Similar to the kprobe-event tracer, this doesn't need to be activated via +current_tracer. Instead of that, add probe points via +/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events, and enable it via +/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/uprobes/<EVENT>/enabled. + +However unlike kprobe-event tracer, the uprobe event interface expects the +user to calculate the offset of the probepoint in the object + +Synopsis of uprobe_tracer +------------------------- + p[:[GRP/]EVENT] PATH:SYMBOL[+offs] [FETCHARGS] : Set a probe + + GRP : Group name. If omitted, use "uprobes" for it. + EVENT : Event name. If omitted, the event name is generated + based on SYMBOL+offs. + PATH : path to an executable or a library. + SYMBOL[+offs] : Symbol+offset where the probe is inserted. + + FETCHARGS : Arguments. Each probe can have up to 128 args. + %REG : Fetch register REG + +Event Profiling +--------------- + You can check the total number of probe hits and probe miss-hits via +/sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_profile. + The first column is event name, the second is the number of probe hits, +the third is the number of probe miss-hits. + +Usage examples +-------------- +To add a probe as a new event, write a new definition to uprobe_events +as below. + + echo 'p: /bin/bash:0x4245c0' > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events + + This sets a uprobe at an offset of 0x4245c0 in the executable /bin/bash + + echo > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/uprobe_events + + This clears all probe points. + +The following example shows how to dump the instruction pointer and %ax +a register at the probed text address. Here we are trying to probe +function zfree in /bin/zsh + + # cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/ + # cat /proc/`pgrep zsh`/maps | grep /bin/zsh | grep r-xp + 00400000-0048a000 r-xp 00000000 08:03 130904 /bin/zsh + # objdump -T /bin/zsh | grep -w zfree + 0000000000446420 g DF .text 0000000000000012 Base zfree + +0x46420 is the offset of zfree in object /bin/zsh that is loaded at +0x00400000. Hence the command to probe would be : + + # echo 'p /bin/zsh:0x46420 %ip %ax' > uprobe_events + +Please note: User has to explicitly calculate the offset of the probepoint +in the object. We can see the events that are registered by looking at the +uprobe_events file. + + # cat uprobe_events + p:uprobes/p_zsh_0x46420 /bin/zsh:0x0000000000046420 + +Right after definition, each event is disabled by default. For tracing these +events, you need to enable it by: + + # echo 1 > events/uprobes/enable + +Lets disable the event after sleeping for some time. + # sleep 20 + # echo 0 > events/uprobes/enable + +And you can see the traced information via /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace. + + # cat trace + # tracer: nop + # + # TASK-PID CPU# TIMESTAMP FUNCTION + # | | | | | + zsh-24842 [006] 258544.995456: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79 + zsh-24842 [007] 258545.000270: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79 + zsh-24842 [002] 258545.043929: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79 + zsh-24842 [004] 258547.046129: p_zsh_0x46420: (0x446420) arg1=446421 arg2=79 + +Each line shows us probes were triggered for a pid 24842 with ip being +0x446421 and contents of ax register being 79. |