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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 19:05:53 +0100
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To: Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"ast@...nel.org" <ast@...nel.org>,
"daniel@...earbox.net" <daniel@...earbox.net>,
Kernel Team <Kernel-team@...com>,
"acme@...nel.org" <acme@...nel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 perf, bpf-next 1/4] perf, bpf: Introduce
PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 05:09:17PM +0000, Song Liu wrote:
> > And while this tracks the bpf kallsyms, it does not do all kallsyms.
> >
> > .... Oooh, I see the problem, everybody is doing their own custom
> > kallsym_{add,del}() thing, instead of having that in generic code :-(
> >
> > This, for example, doesn't track module load/unload nor ftrace
> > trampolines, even though both affect kallsyms.
>
> I think we can use PERF_RECORD_MMAP(or MMAP2) for module load/unload.
> That could be separate sets of patches.
So I would actually like to move bpf_lock/bpf_kallsyms/bpf_tree +
bpf_prog_kallsyms_*() + __bpf_address_lookup() into kernel/kallsyms.c
and also have ftrace use that.
Because currently the ftrace stuff is otherwise invisible.
A generic kallsym register/unregister for any JIT.
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