Re: [PATCH v5 0/9] tracing: Improbe BTF support on probe events

From: Google
Date: Mon Aug 21 2023 - 11:09:47 EST


Hi Steve,

Can you review this series?
I would like to push this to for-next.

Thank you,

On Mon, 7 Aug 2023 11:54:28 +0900
"Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here is the 5th version of series to improve the BTF support on probe events.
> The previous series is here:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/169078860386.173706.3091034523220945605.stgit@devnote2/
>
> This version introduces kernel/trace/trace_btf.c to separate the btf generic
> functions. These functions will be moved to btf.c next merge window.
> This fixes the member-search function to return the bit-offset of the
> parent anonymous union/structure. Thus the caller can calculate the real
> bit-offset from the root data structure.
> This also fixes the ftrace selftest issue which fails if the kernel
> supports only BTF args but not support field access.
>
> This series can be applied on top of "probes/core" branch of
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace.git/
>
> You can also get this series from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mhiramat/linux.git topic/fprobe-event-ext
>
> Thank you,
>
> ---
>
> Masami Hiramatsu (Google) (9):
> tracing/probes: Support BTF argument on module functions
> tracing/probes: Move finding func-proto API and getting func-param API to trace_btf
> tracing/probes: Add a function to search a member of a struct/union
> tracing/probes: Support BTF based data structure field access
> tracing/probes: Support BTF field access from $retval
> tracing/probes: Add string type check with BTF
> tracing/fprobe-event: Assume fprobe is a return event by $retval
> selftests/ftrace: Add BTF fields access testcases
> Documentation: tracing: Update fprobe event example with BTF field
>
>
> Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst | 64 ++-
> include/linux/btf.h | 1
> kernel/bpf/btf.c | 2
> kernel/trace/Makefile | 1
> kernel/trace/trace.c | 3
> kernel/trace/trace_btf.c | 109 ++++
> kernel/trace/trace_btf.h | 11
> kernel/trace/trace_eprobe.c | 4
> kernel/trace/trace_fprobe.c | 59 ++
> kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 1
> kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 499 +++++++++++++++-----
> kernel/trace/trace_probe.h | 27 +
> kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 1
> .../ftrace/test.d/dynevent/add_remove_btfarg.tc | 20 +
> .../ftrace/test.d/dynevent/fprobe_syntax_errors.tc | 10
> 15 files changed, 637 insertions(+), 175 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_btf.c
> create mode 100644 kernel/trace/trace_btf.h
>
> --
> Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>


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