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Pull probes updates from Masami Hiramatsu:
"Stack usage reduction for probe events:
- Allocate string buffers from the heap for uprobe, eprobe, kprobe,
and fprobe events to avoid stack overflow
- Allocate traceprobe_parse_context from the heap to prevent
potential stack overflow
- Fix a typo in the above commit
New features for eprobe and tprobe events:
- Add support for arrays in eprobes
- Support multiple tprobes on the same tracepoint
Improve efficiency:
- Register fprobe-events only when it is enabled to reduce overhead
- Register tracepoints for tprobe events only when enabled to resolve
a lock dependency
Code Cleanup:
- Add kerneldoc for traceprobe_parse_event_name() and
__get_insn_slot()
- Sort #include alphabetically in the probes code
- Remove the unused 'mod' field from the tprobe-event
- Clean up the entry-arg storing code in probe-events
Selftest update
- Enable fprobe events before checking enable_functions in selftests"
* tag 'probes-v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace:
tracing: trace_fprobe: Fix typo of the semicolon
tracing: Have eprobes handle arrays
tracing: probes: Add a kerneldoc for traceprobe_parse_event_name()
tracing: uprobe-event: Allocate string buffers from heap
tracing: eprobe-event: Allocate string buffers from heap
tracing: kprobe-event: Allocate string buffers from heap
tracing: fprobe-event: Allocate string buffers from heap
tracing: probe: Allocate traceprobe_parse_context from heap
tracing: probes: Sort #include alphabetically
kprobes: Add missing kerneldoc for __get_insn_slot
tracing: tprobe-events: Register tracepoint when enable tprobe event
selftests: tracing: Enable fprobe events before checking enable_functions
tracing: fprobe-events: Register fprobe-events only when it is enabled
tracing: tprobe-events: Support multiple tprobes on the same tracepoint
tracing: tprobe-events: Remove mod field from tprobe-event
tracing: probe-events: Cleanup entry-arg storing code
Linux Ftrace Testcases
This is a collection of testcases for ftrace tracing feature in the Linux
kernel. Since ftrace exports interfaces via the debugfs, we just need
shell scripts for testing. Feel free to add new test cases.
Running the ftrace testcases
============================
At first, you need to be the root user to run this script.
To run all testcases:
$ sudo ./ftracetest
To run specific testcases:
# ./ftracetest test.d/basic3.tc
Or you can also run testcases under given directory:
# ./ftracetest test.d/kprobe/
Contributing new testcases
==========================
Copy test.d/template to your testcase (whose filename must have *.tc
extension) and rewrite the test description line.
* The working directory of the script is <debugfs>/tracing/.
* Take care with side effects as the tests are run with root privilege.
* The tests should not run for a long period of time (more than 1 min.)
These are to be unit tests.
* You can add a directory for your testcases under test.d/ if needed.
* The test cases should run on dash (busybox shell) for testing on
minimal cross-build environments.
* Note that the tests are run with "set -e" (errexit) option. If any
command fails, the test will be terminated immediately.
* The tests can return some result codes instead of pass or fail by
using exit_unresolved, exit_untested, exit_unsupported and exit_xfail.
Result code
===========
Ftracetest supports following result codes.
* PASS: The test succeeded as expected. The test which exits with 0 is
counted as passed test.
* FAIL: The test failed, but was expected to succeed. The test which exits
with !0 is counted as failed test.
* UNRESOLVED: The test produced unclear or intermidiate results.
for example, the test was interrupted
or the test depends on a previous test, which failed.
or the test was set up incorrectly
The test which is in above situation, must call exit_unresolved.
* UNTESTED: The test was not run, currently just a placeholder.
In this case, the test must call exit_untested.
* UNSUPPORTED: The test failed because of lack of feature.
In this case, the test must call exit_unsupported.
* XFAIL: The test failed, and was expected to fail.
To return XFAIL, call exit_xfail from the test.
There are some sample test scripts for result code under samples/.
You can also run samples as below:
# ./ftracetest samples/
TODO
====
* Fancy colored output :)