Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753008Ab0F1GCp (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:02:45 -0400 Received: from e28smtp07.in.ibm.com ([122.248.162.7]:46652 "EHLO e28smtp07.in.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752508Ab0F1GCo (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jun 2010 02:02:44 -0400 From: Srikar Dronamraju To: Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar Cc: Masami Hiramatsu , Mel Gorman , Srikar Dronamraju , Steven Rostedt , Randy Dunlap , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Linus Torvalds , "H. Peter Anvin" , Roland McGrath , Christoph Hellwig , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Oleg Nesterov , Mark Wielaard , Mathieu Desnoyers , LKML , Jim Keniston , Frederic Weisbecker , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Andrew Morton , "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:27:40 +0530 Message-Id: <20100628055740.6869.77397.sendpatchset@localhost6.localdomain6> Subject: [PATCHv6 2.6.35-rc3-tip 0/12] Uprobes Patches: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 6812 Lines: 156 Uprobes Patches Changelog from V5: - Merged user_bkpt and user_bkpt_xol into uprobes. - Addressed comments till now. Changelog from V4: - Rebased to tip tree. (2.6.35-rc3-tip) Changelog from v3: - Reverted to background page replacement as suggested by Peter Zijlstra. - Dso in 'perf probe' can be either be a short name or a absolute path. - Addressed comments from Masami, Frederic, Steven on traceevents and perf Changelog from v2: - Addressed comments from Oleg, including removal of interrupt context handlers, reverting background page replacement in favour of access_process_vm(). - Provides perf interface for uprobes. Changelog from v1: - Added trace_event interface for uprobes. - Addressed comments from Andrew Morton and Randy Dunlap. For previous posting: please refer: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/14/41 http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/20/107 and http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/18/307 This patchset implements Uprobes which enables you to dynamically break into any routine in a user space application and collect information non-disruptively. This patchset is a rework based on suggestions from discussions on lkml in January and March 2010 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/11/92, http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/27/19, http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/20/107 and http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/31/199 ). This implementation of uprobes doesnt depend on utrace. When a uprobe is registered, Uprobes makes a copy of the probed instruction, replaces the first byte(s) of the probed instruction with a breakpoint instruction. (Uprobes uses background page replacement mechanism and ensures that the breakpoint affects only that process.) When a CPU hits the breakpoint instruction, Uprobes gets notified of trap and finds the associated uprobe. It then executes the associated handler. Uprobes single-steps its copy of the probed instruction and resumes execution of the probed process at the instruction following the probepoint. Instruction copies to be single-stepped are stored in a per-process "execution out of line (XOL) area". Currently XOL area is allocated as one page vma. Advantages of uprobes over conventional debugging include: 1. Non-disruptive. Unlike current ptrace based mechanisms, uprobes tracing wouldnt involve signals, stopping threads and context switching between the tracer and tracee. 2. Much better handling of multithreaded programs because of XOL. Current ptrace based mechanisms use single stepping inline, i.e they copy back the original instruction on hitting a breakpoint. In such mechanisms tracers have to stop all the threads on a breakpoint hit or tracers will not be able to handle all hits to the location of interest. Uprobes uses execution out of line, where the instruction to be traced is analysed at the time of breakpoint insertion and a copy of instruction is stored at a different location. On breakpoint hit, uprobes jumps to that copied location and singlesteps the same instruction and does the necessary fixups post singlestepping. 3. Multiple tracers for an application. Multiple uprobes based tracer could work in unison to trace an application. There could one tracer that could be interested in generic events for a particular set of process. While there could be another tracer that is just interested in one specific event of a particular process thats part of the previous set of process. 4. Corelating events from kernels and userspace. Uprobes could be used with other tools like kprobes, tracepoints or as part of higher level tools like perf to give a consolidated set of events from kernel and userspace. In future we could look at a single backtrace showing application, library and kernel calls. Here is the list of TODO Items. - Allowing probes across fork. - Allowing probes per-executable/per dso. - Allow multiple probes to share a probepoint. - Return probes. - Support for other architectures. - Uprobes booster. - Merge uprobes and kprobes trace_event. - replace macro W with bits in inat table. Please do provide your valuable comments. Thanks in advance. Srikar Srikar Dronamraju(12) 0: Uprobes Patches 1: mm: Move replace_page() / write_protect_page() to mm/memory.c 2: uprobes: Breakpoint insertion/removal in user space applications. 3: uprobes: Slot allocation for Execution out of line(XOL) 4: uprobes: x86 specific functions for user space breakpointing. 5: uprobes: Uprobes (un)registration and exception handling. 6: uprobes: X86 support for Uprobes 7: uprobes: Uprobes Documentation 8: trace: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes traceevents. 9: trace: uprobes trace_event interface 10: perf: Dont adjust symbols on name lookup 11: perf: Re-Add make_absolute_path 12: perf: perf interface for uprobes Documentation/uprobes.txt | 193 +++++ arch/Kconfig | 6 + arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/thread_info.h | 2 + arch/x86/include/asm/uprobes.h | 43 ++ arch/x86/kernel/Makefile | 2 + arch/x86/kernel/signal.c | 13 + arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c | 599 ++++++++++++++++ fs/exec.c | 4 + include/linux/mm.h | 4 + include/linux/mm_types.h | 4 + include/linux/sched.h | 3 + include/linux/uprobes.h | 334 +++++++++ kernel/Makefile | 1 + kernel/fork.c | 21 + kernel/trace/Kconfig | 20 + kernel/trace/Makefile | 2 + kernel/trace/trace.h | 5 + kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 600 +--------------- kernel/trace/trace_probe.c | 521 ++++++++++++++ kernel/trace/trace_probe.h | 126 ++++ kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 739 +++++++++++++++++++ kernel/uprobes.c | 1396 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ mm/ksm.c | 112 --- mm/memory.c | 120 +++ tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | 13 +- tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 20 - tools/perf/util/abspath.c | 81 +++ tools/perf/util/cache.h | 1 + tools/perf/util/event.c | 20 + tools/perf/util/event.h | 1 + tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 466 +++++++++---- tools/perf/util/probe-event.h | 37 +- tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 20 +- tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h | 6 +- tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 6 +- 36 files changed, 4651 insertions(+), 891 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/