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From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	"Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Brendan Gregg <bgregg@netflix.com>,
	Christian Brauner <christian@brauner.io>,
	Aleksa Sarai <asarai@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kretprobe: produce sane stack traces
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 19:13:47 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181101191347.74eadff4a5d1fab2d79d7efe@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181031133912.3j5tryq2vyhkdn4d@yavin>

On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 00:39:12 +1100
Aleksa Sarai <cyphar@cyphar.com> wrote:

> On 2018-10-31, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > > Anyway, until that merge happens, this patch looks good to avoid
> > > this issue for generic solution (e.g. for the arch which doesn't
> > > supports retstack).
> > 
> > I think its time to come up with an algorithm that makes function graph
> > work with multiple users, and have kretprobes be able to hook into it
> > just like kprobes hooks into function tracer.
> > 
> > I have some ideas on how to get this done, and will try to have an RFC
> > patch set ready by plumbers.
> 
> Should I continue working on this patchset?

Yes, until we finally introduce Steven's algorithm on all arch (yeah, we still
have some archs which don't support graph-tracer but supports kprobes),
I think your patch is the best fix for this issue.

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-01 10:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-10-26 13:22 [PATCH] kretprobe: produce sane stack traces Aleksa Sarai
2018-10-30  1:12 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-10-30  3:19   ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-01  8:06     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-10-31 13:03   ` Steven Rostedt
2018-10-31 13:39     ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-01 10:13       ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2018-11-01 10:49         ` Aleksa Sarai
2018-11-01 13:22           ` Steven Rostedt
2018-11-01 15:01           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2018-11-01 20:25             ` Aleksa Sarai

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