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| author | Adrian Hunter | 2020-05-12 15:19:18 +0300 |
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| committer | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo | 2020-07-10 08:20:01 -0300 |
| commit | 246eba8e9041c4774738645c72b6efac7601db22 (patch) | |
| tree | d56b865a1e0cd39f3264ac8b67d492ff35fefe21 /tools/include | |
| parent | b39730a6633d630b2a7bc61e597a0c671eb753b4 (diff) | |
perf tools: Add support for PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE
Add processing for PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE events. When a text poke event
is processed, then the kernel dso data cache is updated with the poked
bytes.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: x86@kernel.org
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200512121922.8997-12-adrian.hunter@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 7b2d6fc9e6ed..e5bee6c17b86 100644 --- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -383,7 +383,8 @@ struct perf_event_attr { bpf_event : 1, /* include bpf events */ aux_output : 1, /* generate AUX records instead of events */ cgroup : 1, /* include cgroup events */ - __reserved_1 : 31; + text_poke : 1, /* include text poke events */ + __reserved_1 : 30; union { __u32 wakeup_events; /* wakeup every n events */ @@ -1024,6 +1025,24 @@ enum perf_event_type { */ PERF_RECORD_CGROUP = 19, + /* + * Records changes to kernel text i.e. self-modified code. 'old_len' is + * the number of old bytes, 'new_len' is the number of new bytes. Either + * 'old_len' or 'new_len' may be zero to indicate, for example, the + * addition or removal of a trampoline. 'bytes' contains the old bytes + * followed immediately by the new bytes. + * + * struct { + * struct perf_event_header header; + * u64 addr; + * u16 old_len; + * u16 new_len; + * u8 bytes[]; + * struct sample_id sample_id; + * }; + */ + PERF_RECORD_TEXT_POKE = 20, + PERF_RECORD_MAX, /* non-ABI */ }; |