tree 929053b3dc3a806529788e54d9700f556b48911b
parent bdf2b8cbf076568f7d17dc62467348d409142298
author Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> 1557898745 +0900
committer Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> 1558839882 -0400

perf-probe: Add user memory access attribute support

Add user memory access attribute for kprobe event arguments.
If a given 'local variable' is in user-space, User can
specify memory access method by '@user' suffix. This is
not only for string but also for data structure.

If we access a field of data structure in user memory from
kernel on some arch, it will fail. e.g.

 perf probe -a "sched_setscheduler param->sched_priority"

This will fail to access the "param->sched_priority" because
the param is __user pointer. Instead, we can now specify
@user suffix for such argument.

 perf probe -a "sched_setscheduler param->sched_priority@user"

Note that kernel memory access with "@user" must always fail
on any arch.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789874562.26965.10836126971405890891.stgit@devnote2

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>