Getting backtraces from arbitrary places

Needs debuginfo, either in a package-debuginfo rpm or equivalent or by building with ‘cc -g’:

[root@jouet ~]# perf probe -L icmp_rcv:52 | head -15

  52  	if (rt->rt_flags & (RTCF_BROADCAST | RTCF_MULTICAST)) {
      		/*
      		 * RFC 1122: 3.2.2.6 An ICMP_ECHO to broadcast MAY be
      		 *  silently ignored (we let user decide with a sysctl).
      		 * RFC 1122: 3.2.2.8 An ICMP_TIMESTAMP MAY be silently
      		 *  discarded if to broadcast/multicast.
      		 */
  59  		if ((icmph->type == ICMP_ECHO ||
  60  		     icmph->type == ICMP_TIMESTAMP) &&
      		    net->ipv4.sysctl_icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts) {
      			goto error;
      		}
      		if (icmph->type != ICMP_ECHO &&
      		    icmph->type != ICMP_TIMESTAMP &&
[root@jouet ~]# perf probe icmp_rcv:59
Added new event:
  probe:icmp_rcv       (on icmp_rcv:59)

You can now use it in all perf tools, such as:

	perf record -e probe:icmp_rcv -aR sleep 1

[root@jouet ~]# perf trace --no-syscalls --event probe:icmp_rcv/max-stack=5/
     0.000 probe:icmp_rcv:(ffffffffb47b7f9b))
                          icmp_rcv ([kernel.kallsyms])
                          ip_local_deliver_finish ([kernel.kallsyms])
                          ip_local_deliver ([kernel.kallsyms])
                          ip_rcv_finish ([kernel.kallsyms])
                          ip_rcv ([kernel.kallsyms])
  1025.876 probe:icmp_rcv:(ffffffffb47b7f9b))
                          icmp_rcv ([kernel.kallsyms])
                          ip_local_deliver_finish ([kernel.kallsyms])
                          ip_local_deliver ([kernel.kallsyms])
                          ip_rcv_finish ([kernel.kallsyms])
                          ip_rcv ([kernel.kallsyms])
^C[root@jouet ~]#

Humm, lots of redundant info, guess we could do away with those ([kernel.kallsyms) in all the callchain lines…