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From: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: "Guo Ren" <guoren@kernel.org>, "Björn Töpel" <bjorn@kernel.org>,
	"liaochang (A)" <liaochang1@huawei.com>,
	palmer@dabbelt.com, paul.walmsley@sifive.com,
	conor.dooley@microchip.com, penberg@kernel.org,
	linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Guo Ren" <guoren@linux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] riscv: kprobe: Optimize kprobe with accurate atomicity
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 10:35:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y/NNDXlXth2HgSUf@FVFF77S0Q05N> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230217002351.112635f4fb35f84002666d29@kernel.org>

On Fri, Feb 17, 2023 at 12:23:51AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 10:33:05 +0000
> Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 09:48:29AM +0800, Guo Ren wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 11:49 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> > Masami, Steve, and I had a chat at the tracing summit late last year (which
> > unfortunately, was not recorded), and what we'd like to do is get each
> > architecture to have FPROBE (and FTRACE_WITH_ARGS), at which point OPTPROBE
> > and KRETPROBE become redundant and could be removed.
> 
> No, the fprobe will replace the KRETPROBE but not OPTPROBE. The OPTPROBE
> is completely different one. Fprobe is used only for function entry, but
> optprobe is applied to the function body.

Sorry, I had OPTPROBE and KPROBE_ON_FTRACE confused in my head, and was
thinking that FPROBE would supersede KPROBE_ON_FTRACE and KRETPROBE.

> > i.e. we'd keep KPROBES as a "you can trace any instruction" feature, but in the
> > few cases where OPTPROBES can make things fater by using FTRACE, you should
> > just use that directly via FPROBE.
> 
> I think what you are saying is KPROBE_ON_FTRACE, and that will be replaced by
> FPROBES.

Yes, sorry for the confusion.

Mark.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-20 10:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-26 16:15 [PATCH] riscv: kprobe: Optimize kprobe with accurate atomicity guoren
2023-01-28  3:52 ` liaochang (A)
2023-01-28  4:45   ` Guo Ren
2023-01-30 15:28     ` Björn Töpel
2023-01-30 15:49       ` Mark Rutland
2023-01-30 16:56         ` Björn Töpel
2023-01-31  1:48         ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31  7:12           ` Björn Töpel
2023-01-31  8:30             ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31 10:33           ` Mark Rutland
2023-02-16 15:23             ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-02-20 10:35               ` Mark Rutland [this message]
2023-02-21  1:30               ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31  1:01       ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31  1:09         ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31  7:03           ` Björn Töpel
2023-01-31  8:27             ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31  6:40         ` Björn Töpel
2023-01-31  8:15           ` Guo Ren
2023-01-31 10:56             ` Andrea Parri
2023-01-31 13:23               ` Guo Ren
2023-02-16  7:54                 ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-17  2:28                   ` Guo Ren
2023-02-17  7:32                     ` Björn Töpel
2023-02-21  1:56                       ` Guo Ren
2023-02-16 15:42 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2023-02-21  0:57   ` Guo Ren

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