Re: [PATCH] tracing: Enable kprobe tracing for Arm64 asm functions

[Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>]

On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:07:51AM -0700, Ben Niu wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 12:35:25PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Is there something specific you want to trace, but cannot currently
> > trace (on arm64)?
> 
> For some reason, we only saw Arm64 Linux asm functions __arch_copy_to_user and
> __arch_copy_from_user being hot in our workloads, not those counterpart asm
> functions on x86, so we are trying to understand and improve performance of
> those Arm64 asm functions.

Are you sure that's not an artifact of those being out-of-line on arm64,
but inline on x86? On x86, the out-of-line forms are only used when the
CPU doesn't have FSRM, and when the CPU *does* have FSRM, the logic gets
inlined. See raw_copy_from_user(), raw_copy_to_user(), and
copy_user_generic() in arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess_64.h.

Have you checked that inlining is not skewing your results, and
artificially making those look hotter on am64 by virtue of centralizing
samples to the same IP/PC range?

Can you share any information on those workloads? e.g. which callchains
were hot?

Mark.