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authorMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>2023-08-23 01:26:12 +0900
committerMasami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>2023-08-23 09:40:28 +0900
commitc440adfbe30257dde905adc1fce51131145f7245 (patch)
tree7d165f8b5f7f0234ff77477653865ecf1ec09714 /kernel/trace/trace.c
parent302db0f5b3d87e3b9de2d82bfe11c1d7db84d0c2 (diff)
tracing/probes: Support BTF based data structure field access
Using BTF to access the fields of a data structure. You can use this for accessing the field with '->' or '.' operation with BTF argument. # echo 't sched_switch next=next->pid vruntime=next->se.vruntime' \ > dynamic_events # echo 1 > events/tracepoints/sched_switch/enable # head -n 40 trace | tail <idle>-0 [000] d..3. 272.565382: sched_switch: (__probestub_sched_switch+0x4/0x10) next=26 vruntime=956533179 kcompactd0-26 [000] d..3. 272.565406: sched_switch: (__probestub_sched_switch+0x4/0x10) next=0 vruntime=0 <idle>-0 [000] d..3. 273.069441: sched_switch: (__probestub_sched_switch+0x4/0x10) next=9 vruntime=956533179 kworker/0:1-9 [000] d..3. 273.069464: sched_switch: (__probestub_sched_switch+0x4/0x10) next=26 vruntime=956579181 kcompactd0-26 [000] d..3. 273.069480: sched_switch: (__probestub_sched_switch+0x4/0x10) next=0 vruntime=0 <idle>-0 [000] d..3. 273.141434: sched_switch: (__probestub_sched_switch+0x4/0x10) next=22 vruntime=956533179 kworker/u2:1-22 [000] d..3. 273.141461: sched_switch: (__probestub_sched_switch+0x4/0x10) next=0 vruntime=0 <idle>-0 [000] d..3. 273.480872: sched_switch: (__probestub_sched_switch+0x4/0x10) next=22 vruntime=956585857 kworker/u2:1-22 [000] d..3. 273.480905: sched_switch: (__probestub_sched_switch+0x4/0x10) next=70 vruntime=959533179 sh-70 [000] d..3. 273.481102: sched_switch: (__probestub_sched_switch+0x4/0x10) next=0 vruntime=0 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/169272157251.160970.9318175874130965571.stgit@devnote2/ Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/trace.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index b8870078ef58d..58ebda1cf9005 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -5717,7 +5717,8 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
"\t fetcharg: (%<register>|$<efield>), @<address>, @<symbol>[+|-<offset>],\n"
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
#ifdef CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS_BTF_ARGS
- "\t $stack<index>, $stack, $retval, $comm, $arg<N>, <argname>\n"
+ "\t $stack<index>, $stack, $retval, $comm, $arg<N>,\n"
+ "\t <argname>[->field[->field|.field...]],\n"
#else
"\t $stack<index>, $stack, $retval, $comm, $arg<N>,\n"
#endif