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[RFC,7/9] docs: tracing: Update fprobe documentation

Message ID 166792261641.919356.4627265153244048545.stgit@devnote3
State New
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Series tracing: Add fprobe events |

Commit Message

Masami Hiramatsu (Google) Nov. 8, 2022, 3:50 p.m. UTC 
  From: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

Update fprobe.rst for
 - the private entry_data argument
 - the return value of the entry handler
 - the nr_rethook_node field.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/trace/fprobe.rst |   16 ++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/Documentation/trace/fprobe.rst b/Documentation/trace/fprobe.rst
index b64bec1ce144..40dd2fbce861 100644
--- a/Documentation/trace/fprobe.rst
+++ b/Documentation/trace/fprobe.rst
@@ -87,14 +87,16 @@  returns as same as unregister_ftrace_function().
 The fprobe entry/exit handler
 =============================
 
-The prototype of the entry/exit callback function is as follows:
+The prototype of the entry/exit callback function are as follows:
 
 .. code-block:: c
 
- void callback_func(struct fprobe *fp, unsigned long entry_ip, struct pt_regs *regs);
+ int entry_callback(struct fprobe *fp, unsigned long entry_ip, struct pt_regs *regs, void *entry_data);
 
-Note that both entry and exit callbacks have same ptototype. The @entry_ip is
-saved at function entry and passed to exit handler.
+ void exit_callback(struct fprobe *fp, unsigned long entry_ip, struct pt_regs *regs, void *entry_data);
+
+Note that the @entry_ip is saved at function entry and passed to exit handler.
+If the entry callback function returns !0, the corresponding exit callback will be cancelled.
 
 @fp
         This is the address of `fprobe` data structure related to this handler.
@@ -113,6 +115,12 @@  saved at function entry and passed to exit handler.
         to use @entry_ip. On the other hand, in the exit_handler, the instruction
         pointer of @regs is set to the currect return address.
 
+@entry_data
+        This is a local storage to share the data between entry and exit handlers.
+        This storage is NULL by default. If the user specify `exit_handler` field
+        and `entry_data_size` field when registering the fprobe, the storage is
+        allocated and passed to both `entry_handler` and `exit_handler`.
+
 Share the callbacks with kprobes
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