perf-probe: Add user memory access attribute support
Add user memory access attribute for kprobe event arguments. If a given 'local variable' is in user-space, User can specify memory access method by '@user' suffix. This is not only for string but also for data structure. If we access a field of data structure in user memory from kernel on some arch, it will fail. e.g. perf probe -a "sched_setscheduler param->sched_priority" This will fail to access the "param->sched_priority" because the param is __user pointer. Instead, we can now specify @user suffix for such argument. perf probe -a "sched_setscheduler param->sched_priority@user" Note that kernel memory access with "@user" must always fail on any arch. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/155789874562.26965.10836126971405890891.stgit@devnote2Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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