Re: [RFC PATCH 00/30] Code tagging framework and applications

Peter Zijlstra
2022-09-01T07:42:48Z

On Thu, Sep 01, 2022 at 09:05:36AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2022 at 11:59:41AM -0400, Kent Overstreet wrote:
>
> > Also, ftrace can drop events. Not really ideal if under system load your memory
> > accounting numbers start to drift.
>
> You could attach custom handlers to tracepoints. If you were to replace
> these unconditional code hooks of yours with tracepoints then you could
> conditionally (say at boot) register custom handlers that do the
> accounting you want.
>
> Nobody is mandating you use the ftrace ringbuffer to consume tracepoints.
> Many people these days attach eBPF scripts to them and do whatever they
> want.

Look at kernel/trace/blktrace.c for a fine in-kernel !BFP example of this.