[PATCH] tracing/probe: add a char type to print the character value of traced arguments

[Donglin Peng]

There are scenes that we want to show the character value of traced
arguments other than a decimal or hexadecimal or string value for debug
convinience. Add a new type named 'char' to do it.

For example:

echo 'p:myprobe xxxx $arg1:char' > kprobe_events

Signed-off-by: Donglin Peng <dolinux.peng@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst | 3 ++-
 kernel/trace/trace_probe.c          | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
index 4274cc6a2f94..007972a3c5c4 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
   NAME=FETCHARG : Set NAME as the argument name of FETCHARG.
   FETCHARG:TYPE : Set TYPE as the type of FETCHARG. Currently, basic types
 		  (u8/u16/u32/u64/s8/s16/s32/s64), hexadecimal types
-		  (x8/x16/x32/x64), "string", "ustring" and bitfield
+		  (x8/x16/x32/x64), "char", "string", "ustring" and bitfield
 		  are supported.
 
   (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0).
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ E.g. 'x16[4]' means an array of x16 (2bytes hex) with 4 elements.
 Note that the array can be applied to memory type fetchargs, you can not
 apply it to registers/stack-entries etc. (for example, '$stack1:x8[8]' is
 wrong, but '+8($stack):x8[8]' is OK.)
+Char type can be used to show the character value of traced arguments.
 String type is a special type, which fetches a "null-terminated" string from
 kernel space. This means it will fail and store NULL if the string container
 has been paged out. "ustring" type is an alternative of string for user-space.
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
index 36dff277de46..a4abf7f6c295 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.c
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(x8,  u8,  "0x%x")
 DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(x16, u16, "0x%x")
 DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(x32, u32, "0x%x")
 DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(x64, u64, "0x%Lx")
+DEFINE_BASIC_PRINT_TYPE_FUNC(char, u8, "%c")
 
 int PRINT_TYPE_FUNC_NAME(symbol)(struct trace_seq *s, void *data, void *ent)
 {
@@ -93,6 +94,7 @@ static const struct fetch_type probe_fetch_types[] = {
 	ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_ALIAS(x16, u16, u16, 0),
 	ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_ALIAS(x32, u32, u32, 0),
 	ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_ALIAS(x64, u64, u64, 0),
+	ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_ALIAS(char, u8, u8,  0),
 	ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_ALIAS(symbol, ADDR_FETCH_TYPE, ADDR_FETCH_TYPE, 0),
 
 	ASSIGN_FETCH_TYPE_END
-- 
2.25.1