The commit dfef99cd0b2c ("perf probe: Use ref_reloc_sym based address instead of the symbol name") converts kprobes to use ref_reloc_sym (i.e. _stext) and offset instead of using symbol's name directly. So on my system, adding do_fork ends up with like below:
$ sudo perf probe -v --add do_fork%return probe-definition(0): do_fork%return symbol:do_fork file:(null) line:0 offset:0 return:1 lazy:(null) 0 arguments Looking at the vmlinux_path (7 entries long) Using /lib/modules/3.17.6-1-ARCH/build/vmlinux for symbols Could not open debuginfo. Try to use symbols. Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events write=1 Added new event: Writing event: r:probe/do_fork _stext+456136 Failed to write event: Invalid argument Error: Failed to add events. Reason: Operation not permitted (Code: -1) As you can see, the do_fork was translated to _stext+456136. This was because to support (local) symbols that have same name. But the problem is that kretprobe requires to be inserted at function start point so it simply checks whether it's called with offset 0. And if not, it'll return with -EINVAL. You can see it with dmesg. $ dmesg | tail -1 [125621.764103] Return probe must be used without offset. So we need to use the symbol name instead of ref_reloc_sym in case of return probes. Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jo...@redhat.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhy...@kernel.org> --- tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c index b1406d79b271..7c94acc014e9 100644 --- a/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c +++ b/tools/perf/util/probe-event.c @@ -446,7 +446,7 @@ static int post_process_probe_trace_events(struct probe_trace_event *tevs, } for (i = 0; i < ntevs; i++) { - if (tevs[i].point.address) { + if (tevs[i].point.address && !tevs[i].point.retprobe) { tmp = strdup(reloc_sym->name); if (!tmp) return -ENOMEM; @@ -2255,7 +2255,7 @@ static int find_probe_trace_events_from_map(struct perf_probe_event *pev, goto out; } - if (!pev->uprobes) { + if (!pev->uprobes && !pp->retprobe) { kmap = map__kmap(map); reloc_sym = kmap->ref_reloc_sym; if (!reloc_sym) { -- 2.2.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/