Implement architecture-agnostic parts of USDT parsing logic. The code is
the documentation in this case, it's futile to try to succinctly
describe how USDT parsing is done in any sort of concreteness. But
still, USDTs are recorded in special ELF notes section (.note.stapsdt),
where each USDT call site is described separately. Along with USDT
provider and USDT name, each such note contains USDT argument
specification, which uses assembly-like syntax to describe how to fetch
value of USDT argument. USDT arg spec could be just a constant, or
a register, or a register dereference (most common cases in x86_64), but
it technically can be much more complicated cases, like offset relative
to global symbol and stuff like that. One of the later patches will
implement most common subset of this for x86 and x86-64 architectures,
which seems to handle a lot of real-world production application.
USDT arg spec contains a compact encoding allowing usdt.bpf.h from
previous patch to handle the above 3 cases. Instead of recording which
register might be needed, we encode register's offset within struct
pt_regs to simplify BPF-side implementation. USDT argument can be of
different byte sizes (1, 2, 4, and 8) and signed or unsigned. To handle
this, libbpf pre-calculates necessary bit shifts to do proper casting
and sign-extension in a short sequences of left and right shifts.
The rest is in the code with sometimes extensive comments and references
to external "documentation" for USDTs.
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Dave Marchevsky <davemarchevsky@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220404234202.331384-4-andrii@kernel.org
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