tracing/probe: Add immediate parameter support
Add immediate value parameter (\1234) support to
probe events. This allows you to specify an immediate
(or dummy) parameter instead of fetching from memory
or register.
This feature looks odd, but imagine when you put a probe
on a code to trace some data. If the code is compiled into
2 instructions and 1 instruction has a value but other has
nothing since it is optimized out.
In that case, you can not fold those into one event, even
if ftrace supported multiple probes on one event.
With this feature, you can set a dummy value like
foo=\deadbeef instead of something like foo=%di.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/156095690733.28024.13258186548822649469.stgit@devnote2
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
index 2dcc4e3..cc113b8 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_probe.h
@@ -408,6 +408,7 @@ extern int traceprobe_define_arg_fields(struct trace_event_call *event_call,
C(BAD_VAR, "Invalid $-valiable specified"), \
C(BAD_REG_NAME, "Invalid register name"), \
C(BAD_MEM_ADDR, "Invalid memory address"), \
+ C(BAD_IMM, "Invalid immediate value"), \
C(FILE_ON_KPROBE, "File offset is not available with kprobe"), \
C(BAD_FILE_OFFS, "Invalid file offset value"), \
C(SYM_ON_UPROBE, "Symbol is not available with uprobe"), \