Re: [PATCH 0/3][RFC] tracing/kprobes: prevent jprobes from crashing function graph tracer

[Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>]

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 19:22 -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
>>>> I think we can skip those user handlers, because those are irregular
>>>> functions and user can control (enable/disable) it.
>>>
>>> True, but it may be nice to still trace them.
>>
>> Hm, in that case, I think we can change jprobe_return() to call
>> f-g-tracer's return handler if needed as below;
>> ---
>> static inline jprobe_return(void)
>> {
>> 	implicit_function_return();	/* This executes f-g-tracer prologue */
>> 	__jprobe_return();	/* This should be notraced */
>> }
> 
> Hmm, That looks like it can be quite a hack. We don't know at that
> moment if the handler has been traced or not. We can't always do the
> function graph logic.

Ah, right. Perhaps, jprobe might be able to save the address of top
of the stack and check if it has been modified to return_to_handler
at jprobe_return().

But anyway, I think your patch can fix that too. :-)

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com