daemon: add API to get kernel symbols

This is useful because we might not have access to kernel symbols from
user applications which are not root. Various distributions are starting
to censor kernel addresses without root.

This allows the clients to fetch the symbol addresses without having to
be root themselves.
This commit is contained in:
Christian Hergert
2018-01-28 21:30:19 -08:00
parent cf756c65aa
commit 3162b40702
4 changed files with 113 additions and 13 deletions

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<arg name="flags" type="t" direction="in"/>
<arg name="perf_stream_fd" type="h" direction="out"/>
</method>
<!--
GetKernelSymbols:
Loads the name, type, and address of Linux kernel symbols. This is useful
if your system does not provide access to /proc/kallsyms to non-root users.
Returns: an array of (tys) tuples. t is the address, y is the type, and s
is the name.
Since: 3.28
-->
<method name="GetKernelSymbols">
<arg name="symbols" type="a(tys)" direction="out"/>
</method>
</interface>
</node>