From patchwork Sun Sep 24 13:38:14 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" X-Patchwork-Id: 13396976 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E3C4ECA4C; Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:38:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AE0B3C433C7; Sun, 24 Sep 2023 13:38:16 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1695562700; bh=Ylc3TSXa5ifgz7bjH+Ib7u/kImYYyrGh5B2vMyFRLTg=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=Noce4mwmQNAoIZUogYsYCHEBjWbN2VvgLO6lbPFKdhnc1rWxsAAm5qcB/hlWV7MzL 6M8uaClcpljpII0+yuMjMcfoXR2E4R03fEuYY1TBanEt2HyxGqBltgcZGu2xlwMcw1 GT1nBUt9ctylc2zKowKw8YXTloz3jhxqUqutXd+I1UwjeJr3Fz+fgwqCp1jn6obYvX EbnAwCmrhQ7uQFXszvaCznoy6tg4E3WMRuPOSYmv8+iowSy3I/m+5sghxqx/z/F2qm QL6KhyoirapL2JQ/JB64iPfjQKFoZV2VO2aGFRDutjDqBmqcL1+dhLeHtBXi9ik/4B gmhXMtk+X90zQ== From: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" To: Alexei Starovoitov , Steven Rostedt , Florent Revest Cc: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, LKML , Martin KaFai Lau , bpf , Sven Schnelle , Alexei Starovoitov , Jiri Olsa , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Daniel Borkmann , Alan Maguire , Mark Rutland , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Guo Ren Subject: [PATCH v5 12/12] Documentation: tracing: Add a note about argument and retval access Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2023 22:38:14 +0900 Message-Id: <169556269377.146934.14829235476649685954.stgit@devnote2> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 In-Reply-To: <169556254640.146934.5654329452696494756.stgit@devnote2> References: <169556254640.146934.5654329452696494756.stgit@devnote2> User-Agent: StGit/0.19 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Add a note about the argument and return value accecss will be best effort. Depending on the type, it will be passed via stack or a pair of the registers, but $argN and $retval only support the single register access. Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) --- Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst | 8 ++++++-- Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst | 8 ++++++-- 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst index 8e9bebcf0a2e..e35e6b18df40 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/fprobetrace.rst @@ -59,8 +59,12 @@ Synopsis of fprobe-events and bitfield are supported. (\*1) This is available only when BTF is enabled. - (\*2) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). - (\*3) only for return probe. + (\*2) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). Note, this argument access + is best effort, because depending on the argument type, it may be passed on + the stack. But this only support the arguments via registers. + (\*3) only for return probe. Note that this is also best effort. Depending on the + return value type, it might be passed via a pair of registers. But this only + accesses one register. (\*4) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. (\*5) "u" means user-space dereference. diff --git a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst index 8a2dfee38145..bf9cecb69fc9 100644 --- a/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst +++ b/Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.rst @@ -61,8 +61,12 @@ Synopsis of kprobe_events (x8/x16/x32/x64), "char", "string", "ustring", "symbol", "symstr" and bitfield are supported. - (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). - (\*2) only for return probe. + (\*1) only for the probe on function entry (offs == 0). Note, this argument access + is best effort, because depending on the argument type, it may be passed on + the stack. But this only support the arguments via registers. + (\*2) only for return probe. Note that this is also best effort. Depending on the + return value type, it might be passed via a pair of registers. But this only + accesses one register. (\*3) this is useful for fetching a field of data structures. (\*4) "u" means user-space dereference. See :ref:`user_mem_access`.