Re: [PATCH net-next] udp: Add tracepoint for udp_sendmsg()

Willem de Bruijn
2025-04-17T15:48:48Z

Song Liu wrote:
> Hi Paolo,
>
> > On Apr 17, 2025, at 6:17 AM, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 4/17/25 1:34 PM, Breno Leitao wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 08:57:24AM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
> >>> On 4/16/25 9:23 PM, Breno Leitao wrote:
> >>>> Add a lightweight tracepoint to monitor UDP send message operations,
> >>>> similar to the recently introduced tcp_sendmsg_locked() trace event in
> >>>> commit 0f08335ade712 ("trace: tcp: Add tracepoint for
> >>>> tcp_sendmsg_locked()")
> >>>
> >>> Why is it needed? what would add on top of a plain perf probe, which
> >>> will be always available for such function with such argument, as the
> >>> function can't be inlined?
> >>
> >> Why this function can't be inlined?
> >
> > Because the kernel need to be able find a pointer to it:
> >
> > .sendmsg = udp_sendmsg,
> >
> > I'll be really curious to learn how the compiler could inline that.
>
> It is true that functions that are only used via function pointers
> will not be inlined by compilers (at least for those we have tested).
> For this reason, we do not worry about functions in various
> tcp_congestion_ops. However, udp_sendmsg is also called directly
> by udpv6_sendmsg, so it can still get inlined by LTO.
>
> Thanks,
> Song
>

I would think that hitting this tracepoint for ipv6_addr_v4mapped
addresses is unintentional and surprising, as those would already
hit udpv6_sendmsg.

On which note, any IPv4 change to UDP needs an equivalent IPv6 one.