fprobe: Add ftrace based probe APIs

The fprobe is a wrapper API for ftrace function tracer.
Unlike kprobes, this probes only supports the function entry, but this
can probe multiple functions by one fprobe. The usage is similar, user
will set their callback to fprobe::entry_handler and call
register_fprobe*() with probed functions.
There are 3 registration interfaces,

 - register_fprobe() takes filtering patterns of the functin names.
 - register_fprobe_ips() takes an array of ftrace-location addresses.
 - register_fprobe_syms() takes an array of function names.

The registered fprobes can be unregistered with unregister_fprobe().
e.g.

struct fprobe fp = { .entry_handler = user_handler };
const char *targets[] = { "func1", "func2", "func3"};
...

ret = register_fprobe_syms(&fp, targets, ARRAY_SIZE(targets));

...

unregister_fprobe(&fp);

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/164735283857.1084943.1154436951479395551.stgit@devnote2

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
index a5eb5e7fd624..7ce31abc542b 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
@@ -236,6 +236,18 @@ config DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
 	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE
 	depends on HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_ARGS
 
+config FPROBE
+	bool "Kernel Function Probe (fprobe)"
+	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER
+	depends on DYNAMIC_FTRACE_WITH_REGS
+	default n
+	help
+	  This option enables kernel function probe (fprobe) based on ftrace,
+	  which is similar to kprobes, but probes only for kernel function
+	  entries and it can probe multiple functions by one fprobe.
+
+	  If unsure, say N.
+
 config FUNCTION_PROFILER
 	bool "Kernel function profiler"
 	depends on FUNCTION_TRACER