kprobes: Add symbols for kprobe insn pages

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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 /proc/kallsyms.

Note: kprobe insn pages are not used if ftrace is configured. To see the
effect of this patch, the kernel must be configured with:

	# CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER is not set
	CONFIG_KPROBES=y

and for optimised kprobes:

	CONFIG_OPTPROBES=y

Example on x86:

	# perf probe __schedule
	Added new event:
	  probe:__schedule     (on __schedule)
	# cat /proc/kallsyms | grep '\[__builtin__kprobes\]'
	ffffffffc00d4000 t kprobe_insn_page     [__builtin__kprobes]
	ffffffffc00d6000 t kprobe_optinsn_page  [__builtin__kprobes]

Note: This patch adds "__builtin__kprobes" as a module name in
/proc/kallsyms for symbols for pages allocated for kprobes' purposes, even
though "__builtin__kprobes" is not a module.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200528080058.20230-1-adrian.hunter@intel.com

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Adrian Hunter 2020-05-28 11:00:58 +03:00 • committed by Peter Zijlstra

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include/linux/kprobes.h

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