Merge tag 'trace-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "The biggest change here is the updates to kprobes

  Back in January I posted patches to create function based events.
  These were the events that you suggested I make to allow developers to
  easily create events in code where no trace event exists. After
  posting those changes for review, it was suggested that we implement
  this instead with kprobes.

  The problem with kprobes is that the interface is too complex and
  needs to be simplified. Masami Hiramatsu posted patches in March and
  I've been playing with them a bit. There's been a bit of clean up in
  the kprobe code that was inspired by the function based event patches,
  and a couple of enhancements to the kprobe event interface.

   - If the arch supports it (we added support for x86), you can place a
     kprobe event at the start of a function and use $arg1, $arg2, etc
     to reference the arguments of a function. (Before you needed to
     know what register or where on the stack the argument was).

   - The second is a way to see array of events. For example, if you
     reference a mac address, you can add:

	echo 'p:mac ip_rcv perm_addr=+574($arg2):x8[6]' > kprobe_events

     And this will produce:

	mac: (ip_rcv+0x0/0x140) perm_addr={0x52,0x54,0x0,0xc0,0x76,0xec}

  Other changes include

   - Exporting trace_dump_stack to modules

   - Have the stack tracer trace the entire stack (stop trying to remove
     tracing itself, as we keep removing too much).

   - Added support for SDT in uprobes"

[ SDT - "Statically Defined Tracing" are userspace markers for tracing.
  Let's not use random TLA's in explanations unless they are fairly
  well-established as generic (at least for kernel people) - Linus ]

* tag 'trace-v4.20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (24 commits)
  tracing: Have stack tracer trace full stack
  tracing: Export trace_dump_stack to modules
  tracing: probeevent: Fix uninitialized used of offset in parse args
  tracing/kprobes: Allow kprobe-events to record module symbol
  tracing/kprobes: Check the probe on unloaded module correctly
  tracing/uprobes: Fix to return -EFAULT if copy_from_user failed
  tracing: probeevent: Add $argN for accessing function args
  x86: ptrace: Add function argument access API
  tracing: probeevent: Add array type support
  tracing: probeevent: Add symbol type
  tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch_insn processing common part
  tracing: probeevent: Append traceprobe_ for exported function
  tracing: probeevent: Return consumed bytes of dynamic area
  tracing: probeevent: Unify fetch type tables
  tracing: probeevent: Introduce new argument fetching code
  tracing: probeevent: Remove NOKPROBE_SYMBOL from print functions
  tracing: probeevent: Cleanup argument field definition
  tracing: probeevent: Cleanup print argument functions
  trace_uprobe: support reference counter in fd-based uprobe
  perf probe: Support SDT markers having reference counter (semaphore)
  ...

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
index 8bfc75c90806..47e765c2f2c3 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst
@@ -45,16 +45,18 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events
   @SYM[+|-offs]	: Fetch memory at SYM +|- offs (SYM should be a data symbol)
   $stackN	: Fetch Nth entry of stack (N >= 0)
   $stack	: Fetch stack address.
-  $retval	: Fetch return value.(*)
+  $argN		: Fetch the Nth function argument. (N >= 1) (\*1)
+  $retval	: Fetch return value.(\*2)
   $comm		: Fetch current task comm.
-  +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(**)
+  +|-offs(FETCHARG) : Fetch memory at FETCHARG +|- offs address.(\*3)
   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" and bitfield are supported.
 
-  (*) only for return probe.
-  (**) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
+  (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0).
+  (\*2) only for return probe.
+  (\*3) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures.
 
 Types
 -----
@@ -64,14 +66,27 @@ respectively. 'x' prefix implies it is unsigned. Traced arguments are shown
 in decimal ('s' and 'u') or hexadecimal ('x'). Without type casting, 'x32'
 or 'x64' is used depends on the architecture (e.g. x86-32 uses x32, and
 x86-64 uses x64).
+These value types can be an array. To record array data, you can add '[N]'
+(where N is a fixed number, less than 64) to the base type.
+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.)
 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.
+The string array type is a bit different from other types. For other base
+types, <base-type>[1] is equal to <base-type> (e.g. +0(%di):x32[1] is same
+as +0(%di):x32.) But string[1] is not equal to string. The string type itself
+represents "char array", but string array type represents "char * array".
+So, for example, +0(%di):string[1] is equal to +0(+0(%di)):string.
 Bitfield is another special type, which takes 3 parameters, bit-width, bit-
 offset, and container-size (usually 32). The syntax is::
 
  b<bit-width>@<bit-offset>/<container-size>
 
+Symbol type('symbol') is an alias of u32 or u64 type (depends on BITS_PER_LONG)
+which shows given pointer in "symbol+offset" style.
 For $comm, the default type is "string"; any other type is invalid.