Re: [RFC PATCH 0/6] perf bpf: Probing with local variable

[Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>]

On 5/5/15 8:58 PM, Wang Nan wrote:
>> Two high level comments:
>> - can you collapse SEC("config") with SEC("func_name") ?
>> It seems that "func_name" is only used as reference inside "config".
>> I understand that you're proposing one "config" section where multiple
>> descriptions are strcat together, but why? Something like:
>> SEC("kprobe/generic_perform_write+122(file->f_mapping->a_ops, bytes, offset)")
>> int func(...) { ... }
>> should be enough and more concise.
>>
>
> Is it possible to use such a long section name? I introduce 'config' section

yes. of course. I don't know what is the limit, but it's definitely
above 512 characters. It can contains spaces and special chars too.

> since it contains C strings so I can put things to it freely. By using macro trick,
> we can still use not very complex code to describe probing position like this:
>
> #define PROBE(name, config) \
> SEC("config") char name##_config[] = #name config ; \
> SEC(#name)
> PROBE(generic_perform_write, "kprobe: +122(file->f_mapping->a_ops, bytes, offset)")

that's even more obscure :( why hide it behind macros?
I think single 'SEC' macro is already not very clean, but I couldn't
come up with better alternative. Elf sections are free that why I used
them in samples/bpf/ examples, but let's not overuse them.