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A new dynamic event is introduced: event probe. The event is attached
to an existing tracepoint and uses its fields as arguments. The user
can specify custom format string of the new event, select what tracepoint
arguments will be printed and how to print them.
An event probe is created by writing configuration string in
'dynamic_events' ftrace file:
 e[:[SNAME/]ENAME] SYSTEM/EVENT [FETCHARGS]	- Set an event probe
 -:SNAME/ENAME					- Delete an event probe

Where:
 SNAME	- System name, if omitted 'eprobes' is used.
 ENAME	- Name of the new event in SNAME, if omitted the SYSTEM_EVENT is used.
 SYSTEM	- Name of the system, where the tracepoint is defined, mandatory.
 EVENT	- Name of the tracepoint event in SYSTEM, mandatory.
 FETCHARGS - Arguments:
  <name>=$<field>[:TYPE] - Fetch given filed of the tracepoint and print
			   it as given TYPE with given name. Supported
			   types are:
	                    (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), basic type
        	            (x8/x16/x32/x64), hexadecimal types
			    "string", "ustring" and bitfield.

Example, attach an event probe on openat system call and print name of the
file that will be opened:
 echo "e:esys/eopen syscalls/sys_enter_openat file=\$filename:string" >> dynamic_events
A new dynamic event is created in events/esys/eopen/ directory. It
can be deleted with:
 echo "-:esys/eopen" >> dynamic_events

Filters, triggers and histograms can be attached to the new event, it can
be matched in synthetic events. There is one limitation - an event probe
can not be attached to kprobe, uprobe or another event probe.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210812145805.2292326-1-tz.stoyanov@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210819152825.142428383@goodmis.org

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware) <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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tzstoyanov authored and rostedt committed Aug 20, 2021
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions include/linux/trace_events.h
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Expand Up @@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ enum {
TRACE_EVENT_FL_DYNAMIC_BIT,
TRACE_EVENT_FL_KPROBE_BIT,
TRACE_EVENT_FL_UPROBE_BIT,
TRACE_EVENT_FL_EPROBE_BIT,
};

/*
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* DYNAMIC - Event is a dynamic event (created at run time)
* KPROBE - Event is a kprobe
* UPROBE - Event is a uprobe
* EPROBE - Event is an event probe
*/
enum {
TRACE_EVENT_FL_FILTERED = (1 << TRACE_EVENT_FL_FILTERED_BIT),
Expand All @@ -335,6 +337,7 @@ enum {
TRACE_EVENT_FL_DYNAMIC = (1 << TRACE_EVENT_FL_DYNAMIC_BIT),
TRACE_EVENT_FL_KPROBE = (1 << TRACE_EVENT_FL_KPROBE_BIT),
TRACE_EVENT_FL_UPROBE = (1 << TRACE_EVENT_FL_UPROBE_BIT),
TRACE_EVENT_FL_EPROBE = (1 << TRACE_EVENT_FL_EPROBE_BIT),
};

#define TRACE_EVENT_FL_UKPROBE (TRACE_EVENT_FL_KPROBE | TRACE_EVENT_FL_UPROBE)
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ETT_EVENT_ENABLE = (1 << 3),
ETT_EVENT_HIST = (1 << 4),
ETT_HIST_ENABLE = (1 << 5),
ETT_EVENT_EPROBE = (1 << 6),
};

extern int filter_match_preds(struct event_filter *filter, void *rec);
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1 change: 1 addition & 0 deletions kernel/trace/Makefile
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Expand Up @@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += trace_event_perf.o
endif
obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += trace_events_filter.o
obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += trace_events_trigger.o
obj-$(CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS) += trace_eprobe.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TRACE_EVENT_INJECT) += trace_events_inject.o
obj-$(CONFIG_SYNTH_EVENTS) += trace_events_synth.o
obj-$(CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS) += trace_events_hist.o
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5 changes: 4 additions & 1 deletion kernel/trace/trace.c
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Expand Up @@ -5543,6 +5543,7 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
#ifdef CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS
"\t s:[synthetic/]<event> <field> [<field>]\n"
#endif
"\t e[:[<group>/]<event>] <attached-group>.<attached-event> [<args>]\n"
"\t -:[<group>/]<event>\n"
#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS
"\t place: [<module>:]<symbol>[+<offset>]|<memaddr>\n"
Expand All @@ -5552,7 +5553,7 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
" place (uprobe): <path>:<offset>[%return][(ref_ctr_offset)]\n"
#endif
"\t args: <name>=fetcharg[:type]\n"
"\t fetcharg: %<register>, @<address>, @<symbol>[+|-<offset>],\n"
"\t fetcharg: (%<register>|$<efield>), @<address>, @<symbol>[+|-<offset>],\n"
#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_FUNCTION_ARG_ACCESS_API
"\t $stack<index>, $stack, $retval, $comm, $arg<N>,\n"
#else
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"\t stype: u8/u16/u32/u64, s8/s16/s32/s64, pid_t,\n"
"\t [unsigned] char/int/long\n"
#endif
"\t efield: For event probes ('e' types), the field is on of the fields\n"
"\t of the <attached-group>/<attached-event>.\n"
#endif
" events/\t\t- Directory containing all trace event subsystems:\n"
" enable\t\t- Write 0/1 to enable/disable tracing of all events\n"
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18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions kernel/trace/trace.h
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Expand Up @@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ struct kprobe_trace_entry_head {
unsigned long ip;
};

struct eprobe_trace_entry_head {
struct trace_entry ent;
unsigned int type;
};

struct kretprobe_trace_entry_head {
struct trace_entry ent;
unsigned long func;
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1508,9 +1513,14 @@ static inline int register_trigger_hist_enable_disable_cmds(void) { return 0; }
extern int register_trigger_cmds(void);
extern void clear_event_triggers(struct trace_array *tr);

enum {
EVENT_TRIGGER_FL_PROBE = BIT(0),
};

struct event_trigger_data {
unsigned long count;
int ref;
int flags;
struct event_trigger_ops *ops;
struct event_command *cmd_ops;
struct event_filter __rcu *filter;
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return true;
}

/* Convert certain expected symbols into '_' when generating event names */
static inline void sanitize_event_name(char *name)
{
while (*name++ != '\0')
if (*name == ':' || *name == '.')
*name = '_';
}

/*
* This is a generic way to read and write a u64 value from a file in tracefs.
*
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