Re: [RFC IDEA] ftrace: stack trace deduplication in ring buffer

Re: [RFC IDEA] ftrace: stack trace deduplication in ring buffer

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 13 May 2026 11:55:24 +0800
李鹏飞 <ljdlns1987@gmail.com> wrote:

> My question: is this something you'd consider for upstream ftrace,
> or do you feel this belongs in the eBPF/perf domain? If you're open
> to it, I'll prepare a proper RFC patch series addressing:

Yes, this looks appropriate for the tracefs infrastructure.

> - Pre-allocated bucket pool (no GFP_ATOMIC in trace path)

Have you looked at the tracing_map.c code that handles the histograms
for trace events?

> - Per-trace_array instance support
> - rhashtable or similar proven data structure
> - trace-cmd/libtraceevent plugin for stack_id resolution

If it is a standard format that is not expected to change, then it
could simply go into the libtraceevent core.

Thanks,

-- Steve