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From: Benjamin King <benjaminking@web.de>
To: linux-perf-users@vger.kernel.org
Subject: uretprobe occasionally fires twice
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2017 20:56:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170808185658.GA17828@localhost> (raw)

Hi,
 
I have placed a uprobe and a uretprobe on the same function in libc. When
perf record'ing a larger test where the function is called from multiple
threads, I can occasionally see the following sequence of events in a 'perf
script':
  
  1) uretprobe fires
  2) uprobe fires
  3) uretprobe fires again

More specifically, I am tracing libc's realloc. Since I trace the size of
the memory in question, I think that the uretprobe in 1) is called at
function entry.

This only happens occasionally and I unfortunately I could not reproduce it
with a small testcase yet.

'perf script' prints two warnings:
  * Processed 17216221 events and lost 2 chunks!
  * 114 out of order events recorded.

Could this explain the duplicated output? Are there other known circumstances
where a uretprobe could be unreliable in some way?

Cheers,
  Benjamin

                 reply	other threads:[~2017-08-08 18:57 UTC|newest]

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