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author | Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> | 2009-10-16 20:07:28 -0400 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-10-17 09:53:58 +0200 |
commit | e63cc2397ecc0f2b604f22fb9cdbb05911c1e5d4 (patch) | |
tree | b6e68a1487c4ed3d285aa37457ea83e4b54d7def | |
parent | f397af06e4c9bf5a0bc92facb8cb29905e338ab0 (diff) |
tracing/kprobes: Add failure messages for debugging
Add verbose failure messages to kprobe-tracer for debugging.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20091017000728.16556.16713.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 35 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c index cdacdab1002..b8ef707c84d 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c @@ -597,15 +597,19 @@ static int create_trace_probe(int argc, char **argv) void *addr = NULL; char buf[MAX_EVENT_NAME_LEN]; - if (argc < 2) + if (argc < 2) { + pr_info("Probe point is not specified.\n"); return -EINVAL; + } if (argv[0][0] == 'p') is_return = 0; else if (argv[0][0] == 'r') is_return = 1; - else + else { + pr_info("Probe definition must be started with 'p' or 'r'.\n"); return -EINVAL; + } if (argv[0][1] == ':') { event = &argv[0][2]; @@ -625,21 +629,29 @@ static int create_trace_probe(int argc, char **argv) } if (isdigit(argv[1][0])) { - if (is_return) + if (is_return) { + pr_info("Return probe point must be a symbol.\n"); return -EINVAL; + } /* an address specified */ ret = strict_strtoul(&argv[0][2], 0, (unsigned long *)&addr); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + pr_info("Failed to parse address.\n"); return ret; + } } else { /* a symbol specified */ symbol = argv[1]; /* TODO: support .init module functions */ ret = split_symbol_offset(symbol, &offset); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + pr_info("Failed to parse symbol.\n"); return ret; - if (offset && is_return) + } + if (offset && is_return) { + pr_info("Return probe must be used without offset.\n"); return -EINVAL; + } } argc -= 2; argv += 2; @@ -658,8 +670,11 @@ static int create_trace_probe(int argc, char **argv) } tp = alloc_trace_probe(group, event, addr, symbol, offset, argc, is_return); - if (IS_ERR(tp)) + if (IS_ERR(tp)) { + pr_info("Failed to allocate trace_probe.(%d)\n", + (int)PTR_ERR(tp)); return PTR_ERR(tp); + } /* parse arguments */ ret = 0; @@ -672,6 +687,8 @@ static int create_trace_probe(int argc, char **argv) arg = argv[i]; if (conflict_field_name(argv[i], tp->args, i)) { + pr_info("Argument%d name '%s' conflicts with " + "another field.\n", i, argv[i]); ret = -EINVAL; goto error; } @@ -685,8 +702,10 @@ static int create_trace_probe(int argc, char **argv) goto error; } ret = parse_probe_arg(arg, &tp->args[i].fetch, is_return); - if (ret) + if (ret) { + pr_info("Parse error at argument%d. (%d)\n", i, ret); goto error; + } } tp->nr_args = i; |