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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-08-03 16:28:35 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2018-08-08 15:55:44 -0300
commitdda9ac966d39cec5a501b0b4d0210b3c2a167e6c (patch)
tree2b28cde797a4e65a8f97c380343d75e660dfb604 /tools/perf/include
parent3c8b81864080b710bdce446fd8401923f26fc4d4 (diff)
perf bpf: Add 'syscall_enter' probe helper for syscall enter tracepoints
Allowing one to hook into the syscalls:sys_enter_NAME tracepoints, an example is provided that hooks into the 'openat' syscall. Using it with the probe:vfs_getname probe into getname_flags to get the filename args as it is copied from userspace: # perf probe -l probe:vfs_getname (on getname_flags:73@acme/git/linux/fs/namei.c with pathname) # perf trace -e probe:*getname,tools/perf/examples/bpf/sys_enter_openat.c cat /etc/passwd > /dev/null 0.000 probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffffbd2a8983) pathname="/etc/ld.so.preload" 0.022 syscalls:sys_enter_openat:dfd: CWD, filename: 0xafbe8da8, flags: CLOEXEC 0.027 probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffffbd2a8983) pathname="/etc/ld.so.cache" 0.054 syscalls:sys_enter_openat:dfd: CWD, filename: 0xafdf0ce0, flags: CLOEXEC 0.057 probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffffbd2a8983) pathname="/lib64/libc.so.6" 0.316 probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffffbd2a8983) pathname="/usr/lib/locale/locale-archive" 0.375 syscalls:sys_enter_openat:dfd: CWD, filename: 0xe2b2b0b4 0.379 probe:vfs_getname:(ffffffffbd2a8983) pathname="/etc/passwd" # Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-2po9jcqv1qgj0koxlg8kkg30@git.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/perf/include')
-rw-r--r--tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h b/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h
index a63aa6241b7f..2873cdde293f 100644
--- a/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/perf/include/bpf/bpf.h
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
#define probe(function, vars) \
SEC(#function "=" #function " " #vars) function
+#define syscall_enter(name) \
+ SEC("syscalls:sys_enter_" #name) syscall_enter_ ## name
+
#define license(name) \
char _license[] SEC("license") = #name; \
int _version SEC("version") = LINUX_VERSION_CODE;