Commit 35b6f55a authored by Naveen N. Rao's avatar Naveen N. Rao Committed by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

trace/kprobes: Allow return probes with offsets and absolute addresses

Since the kernel includes many non-global functions with same names, we
will need to use offsets from other symbols (typically _text/_stext) or
absolute addresses to place return probes on specific functions. Also,
the core register_kretprobe() API never forbid use of offsets or
absolute addresses with kretprobes.

Allow its use with the trace infrastructure. To distinguish kernels that
support this, update ftrace README to explicitly call this out.
Signed-off-by: default avatarNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/183e7ce2921a08c9c755ee9a5da3134febc6695b.1487770934.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
parent 90ec5e89
......@@ -4355,6 +4355,7 @@ static const char readme_msg[] =
"\t -:[<group>/]<event>\n"
#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS
"\t place: [<module>:]<symbol>[+<offset>]|<memaddr>\n"
"place (kretprobe): [<module>:]<symbol>[+<offset>]|<memaddr>\n"
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS
"\t place: <path>:<offset>\n"
......
......@@ -680,10 +680,6 @@ static int create_trace_kprobe(int argc, char **argv)
return -EINVAL;
}
if (isdigit(argv[1][0])) {
if (is_return) {
pr_info("Return probe point must be a symbol.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
/* an address specified */
ret = kstrtoul(&argv[1][0], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr);
if (ret) {
......@@ -699,10 +695,6 @@ static int create_trace_kprobe(int argc, char **argv)
pr_info("Failed to parse symbol.\n");
return ret;
}
if (offset && is_return) {
pr_info("Return probe must be used without offset.\n");
return -EINVAL;
}
}
argc -= 2; argv += 2;
......
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