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SubjectRe: [PATCH] [RFC] tracehook: Hook in syscall tracing markers.
* KOSAKI Motohiro (kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com) wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> > At kernel summit, the idea that syscall tracing was generally desirable
> > for tracing was mentioned several times, as was the argument that kernel
> > developers aren't placing markers in meaningful locations. This is a
> > simple patch to try and do that for the syscall case.
> >
> > Presently LTTng attempts to litter these trace markers all over the
> > architecture code, primarily to get around the fact that there was no
> > generic way to get at this information before. Now that platforms are
> > starting to do their syscall entry/exit notifiers through tracehook and
> > we have the asm/syscall.h interface, all of this information can be
> > generically abstracted.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
> >
>
> I think marriage between tracehook and generic marker is very good idea.
> at least, instruction pointer and return value are definitly useful.
>
> but...
> Have you seen Mathieu's tracepoint patch?
> I recommend to use tracepoint insted use marker directly.
>

Yep, tracepoints would be better suited for this. They can be found in
-tip or in -lttng trees.

Does tracehook have any infrastructure that would give us the system
calls parameters (with correct typing ?) :-) Or could they evolve into
this ?

Mathieu

>
> > ---
> >
> > include/linux/tracehook.h | 7 +++++++
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/tracehook.h b/include/linux/tracehook.h
> > index 6186a78..481ff45 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/tracehook.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/tracehook.h
> > @@ -49,6 +49,9 @@
> > #include <linux/sched.h>
> > #include <linux/ptrace.h>
> > #include <linux/security.h>
> > +#include <linux/marker.h>
> > +#include <asm/syscall.h>
> > +
> > struct linux_binprm;
> >
> > /**
> > @@ -112,6 +115,8 @@ static inline __must_check int tracehook_report_syscall_entry(
> > struct pt_regs *regs)
> > {
> > ptrace_report_syscall(regs);
> > + trace_mark(kernel_arch_syscall_entry, "syscall_id %ld ip #p%ld",
> > + syscall_get_nr(NULL, regs), instruction_pointer(regs));
> > return 0;
> > }
> >
> > @@ -135,6 +140,8 @@ static inline __must_check int tracehook_report_syscall_entry(
> > static inline void tracehook_report_syscall_exit(struct pt_regs *regs, int step)
> > {
> > ptrace_report_syscall(regs);
> > + trace_mark(kernel_arch_syscall_exit, "ret %ld",
> > + syscall_get_return_value(NULL, regs));
> > }
>
>

--
Mathieu Desnoyers
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