trace/kprobes: Allow return probes with offsets and absolute addresses
authorNaveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 22 Feb 2017 13:53:39 +0000 (19:23 +0530)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Fri, 3 Mar 2017 22:07:18 +0000 (19:07 -0300)
commit35b6f55aa9ba65141f2def0997e23aab13715d3f
tree6769fa4039aed0459c4091c677dce024b8d46bb7
parent90ec5e89e393c76e19afc845d8f88a5dc8315919
trace/kprobes: Allow return probes with offsets and absolute addresses

Since the kernel includes many non-global functions with same names, we
will need to use offsets from other symbols (typically _text/_stext) or
absolute addresses to place return probes on specific functions. Also,
the core register_kretprobe() API never forbid use of offsets or
absolute addresses with kretprobes.

Allow its use with the trace infrastructure. To distinguish kernels that
support this, update ftrace README to explicitly call this out.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/183e7ce2921a08c9c755ee9a5da3134febc6695b.1487770934.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
kernel/trace/trace.c
kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c