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From: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
To: carlos antonio neira bustos <cneirabustos@gmail.com>,
	Blaise Sanouillet <blez@fb.com>
Cc: Daniel Xu <dxu@dxuuu.xyz>,
	"bpf@vger.kernel.org" <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ebiederm@xmission.com" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Subject: Re: Extending bpf_get_ns_current_pid_tgid()
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 08:59:25 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9067600b-f340-ec3e-2ce8-d299793c123a@fb.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACiB22i6d2skkJJa7uwVRrYy7dtYOxmLgFwzjtieW4BFn2tzLw@mail.gmail.com>



On 11/13/20 6:34 AM, carlos antonio neira bustos wrote:
> Hi Blaise and Daniel,
> 
> 
> I was following a couple of months ago how bpftrace was going to handle 
> this situation. I thought this PR 
> https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/pull/1602 
> <https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/pull/1602> was going to be merged 
> but just found today that is not working.
> 
> I agree with Yonghong Song on the approach of using the two helpers 
> (bpf_get_pid_tgid() and bpf_get_ns_current_pid_tgid()) to move forward 
> on the short term, bpf_get_ns_current_pid_tgid works as a replacement  
> to bpf_get_pid_tgid when you are instrumenting inside a container.
> 
> But the use case described by Blaise is one I would like to use bpftrace,
> 
> If nobody is against it, I could start working on a new helper to 
> address that situation as I need to have bpftrace working in that scenario.

Yes, please. Thanks!

> 
> For my understanding of the problem the new helper should be able to 
> return pid/tgid from a target namespace, is that correct?.

Yes. This way, the stack trace can correlate to target namespace for
symbolization purpose.

> 
> 
> Bests
> 
> 
[...]

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-13 16:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-12 22:20 Extending bpf_get_ns_current_pid_tgid() Daniel Xu
2020-11-13  0:27 ` Yonghong Song
2020-11-13  0:57   ` Daniel Xu
2020-11-13  4:13     ` Yonghong Song
2020-11-13 12:04       ` Blaise Sanouillet
2020-11-13 16:57         ` Yonghong Song
     [not found]         ` <CACiB22i6d2skkJJa7uwVRrYy7dtYOxmLgFwzjtieW4BFn2tzLw@mail.gmail.com>
2020-11-13 16:59           ` Yonghong Song [this message]
     [not found]             ` <CACiB22iU3zk4Row=wAween=rSvHJ7j7M5T2KbyFk38arzEwQpQ@mail.gmail.com>
2021-06-16  9:54               ` Blaise Sanouillet
2021-06-16 17:02               ` Yonghong Song
2021-06-16 21:44                 ` Carlos Neira
2021-06-17  2:49                   ` Yonghong Song
2021-06-17 10:59                     ` Blaise Sanouillet

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