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Please pull the latest tip/perf/urgent tree, which can be found at:
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tip/perf/urgent
Steven Rostedt (1):
perf/tracing: Fix regression of perf losing kprobe events
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kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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commit a8fb2608053547bc3152ea61a5ec7cdfce5d942c
Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Date: Thu Jun 10 14:53:16 2010 -0400
perf/tracing: Fix regression of perf losing kprobe events
With the addition of the code to shrink the kernel tracepoint
infrastructure, we lost kprobes being traced by perf. The reason
is that I tested if the "tp_event->class->perf_probe" existed before
enabling it. This prevents "ftrace only" events (like the function
trace events) from being enabled by perf.
Unfortunately, kprobe events do not use perf_probe. This causes
kprobes to be missed by perf. To fix this, we add the test to
see if "tp_event->class->reg" exists as well as perf_probe.
Normal trace events have only "perf_probe" but no "reg" function,
and kprobes and syscalls have the "reg" but no "perf_probe".
The ftrace unique events do not have either, so this is a valid
test. If a kprobe or syscall is not to be probed by perf, the
"reg" function is called anyway, and will return a failure and
prevent perf from probing it.
Reported-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
index e6f6588..8a2b73f 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_event_perf.c
@@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ int perf_trace_init(struct perf_event *p_event)
mutex_lock(&event_mutex);
list_for_each_entry(tp_event, &ftrace_events, list) {
if (tp_event->event.type == event_id &&
- tp_event->class && tp_event->class->perf_probe &&
+ tp_event->class &&
+ (tp_event->class->perf_probe ||
+ tp_event->class->reg) &&
try_module_get(tp_event->mod)) {
ret = perf_trace_event_init(tp_event, p_event);
break;
--
