Dumping a struct to a buffer in an strace like style using BTF
Commit Message
Hi Alan,
Something I planned to do since forever is to get the contents
of syscall args and print in 'perf trace' using BTF, right now we have
things like:
[root@quaco ~]# perf trace -e connect* ssh localhost
0.000 ( 0.342 ms): ssh/438068 connect(fd: 3, uservaddr: { .family: INET, port: 22, addr: 127.0.0.1 }, addrlen: 16) = 0
root@localhost's password:
in perf-tools-next when building with BUILD_BPF_SKEL=1 that will hook
into that specific syscall and collect the uservaddr sockaddr struct and
then pretty print it.
That is done manually (the last leg) in
tools/perf/trace/beauty/sockaddr.c:
syscall_arg__scnprintf_augmented_sockaddr
af_scnprintfs[family](syscall pointer contents collected via BPF)
which leads to struct sockaddr_in or sockaddr_in6 specific pretty
printers, I wanted to do what these two struct specific pretty printers
do but using BTF.
I guess this is already available, but from a _really_ quick look at
libbpf I couldn't find it, ideas?
I want to try the code at the end of this message for another
multiplexer syscall, bpf(), with this on top of what is at:
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perf/perf-tools-next.git perf-tools-next
Best regards,
- Arnaldo
@@ -319,6 +319,27 @@ int sys_enter_perf_event_open(struct syscall_enter_args *args)
return 1; /* Failure: don't filter */
}
+SEC("tp/syscalls/sys_enter_bpf")
+int sys_enter_bpf(struct syscall_enter_args *args)
+{
+ struct augmented_args_payload *augmented_args = augmented_args_payload();
+ const void *attr = (void *)args->args[1];
+ unsigned int size = args->args[2];
+ unsigned int len = sizeof(augmented_args->args);
+
+ if (augmented_args == NULL)
+ goto failure;
+
+ size &= sizeof(augmented_args->__data) - 1;
+
+ if (bpf_probe_read(&augmented_args->__data, size, attr) < 0)
+ goto failure;
+
+ return augmented__output(args, augmented_args, len + size);
+failure:
+ return 1; /* Failure: don't filter */
+}
+
SEC("tp/syscalls/sys_enter_clock_nanosleep")
int sys_enter_clock_nanosleep(struct syscall_enter_args *args)
{