tracing/kprobes: Add argument name support
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:53:38 +0000 (19:53 -0400)
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:08:00 +0000 (06:08 +0200)
commiteca0d916f6429785bbc88db3ff66631cde62b432
treeba4ddf9900d128e7c8c24b6ee931eace0aad6a36
parente08d1c657f70bcaca11401cd6ac5c8fe59bd2bb7
tracing/kprobes: Add argument name support

Add argument name assignment support and remove "alias" lines from format.
This allows user to assign unique name to each argument. For example,

$ echo p do_sys_open dfd=a0 filename=a1 flags=a2 mode=a3 > kprobe_events

This assigns dfd, filename, flags, and mode to 1st - 4th arguments
respectively. Trace buffer shows those names too.

<...>-1439  [000] 1200885.933147: do_sys_open+0x0/0xdf: dfd=ffffff9c filename=bfa898ac flags=8000 mode=0

This helps users to know what each value means.

Users can filter each events by these names too. Note that you can not
filter by argN anymore.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090910235337.22412.77383.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c