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kprobes: Add perf ksymbol events for kprobe insn pages

Symbols are needed for tools to describe instruction addresses. Pages allocated for kprobe's purposes need symbols to be created for them. Add such symbols to be visible via perf ksymbol events.

Adrian Hunter committed 6 years ago

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include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h+5−0
@@ -1049,6 +1049,11 @@ enum perf_event_type { · 1048 unmodified lines
10491049 enum perf_record_ksymbol_type {
10501050 PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL_TYPE_UNKNOWN = 0,
10511051 PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL_TYPE_BPF = 1,
1052+ /*
1053+ * Out of line code such as kprobe-replaced instructions or optimized
1054+ * kprobes.
1055+ */
1056+ PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL_TYPE_OOL = 2,
10521057 PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL_TYPE_MAX /* non-ABI */
10531058 };
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