linux-kernel - Re: Re: [PATCH -tip v9 25/26] kprobes: Introduce kprobe cache to reduce cache misshits

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Message-ID: <20140426071214.GA2374@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 26 Apr 2014 09:12:14 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.prabhu@...aro.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, fche@...hat.com,
	mingo@...hat.com, systemtap@...rceware.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH -tip v9 25/26] kprobes: Introduce kprobe cache to
 reduce cache misshits


* Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com> wrote:

> (2014/04/25 17:20), Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com> wrote:
> > 
> >>> So I don't think this should be a Kconfig entry, just enable it 
> >>> unconditionally. That will further simplify the code.
> >>
> >> Hmm, it consumes some amount of memory (36KB/core) just for the 
> >> case of several thousand of kprobes. On enterprise servers and 
> >> desktop it's OK, no problem. But I think, some embedded systems 
> >> with small resources will not want that. [...]
> > 
> > They'll just disable kprobes in general.
> 
> No, I'd like to provide kprobes (and dynamic events) to them 
> (including me) for debugging and dynamic monitoring, instead of 
> modifying code for adding events on their kernel. To solve some 
> specific issues, specific events (not generic events) are required. 
> Making local patches to add such events is an option, but it 
> increases maintenance cost for rebasing. It is better to pay cost to 
> maintain this kconfig on upstream as the maintainer for me instead 
> of paying such ugly local cost. :(
> 
> Anyway, this option is not easy for beginners, I think it should be 
> defined with "if EXPERT" option and make it enabled by default.
> 
> > Really, at this point complexity is our main concern.
> 
> Agreed about complexity issue. However, even if we remove the 
> Kconfig, we can just save 6 lines of the code, and one #ifdef block. 
> Can that really solve the complexity problem?

It's more about the mental picture about how kprobes works. The fewer 
binary state flags, the better.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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