linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] fprobe: Introduce fprobe function entry/exit probe

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Message-ID: <CAEf4Bza01kwiKPyXqDD17grVw9WAQT_MztoTsd0tMd2XuuGteQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 14 Jan 2022 17:02:31 -0800
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "Naveen N . Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] fprobe: Introduce fprobe function entry/exit probe

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 7:10 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:47:04PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > Hi Jiri and Alexei,
> >
> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 13:27:34 +0100
> > Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 05:01:15PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 11:02:46PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> > > > > Hi Jiri and Alexei,
> > > > >
> > > > > Here is the 2nd version of fprobe. This version uses the
> > > > > ftrace_set_filter_ips() for reducing the registering overhead.
> > > > > Note that this also drops per-probe point private data, which
> > > > > is not used anyway.
> > > > >
> > > > > This introduces the fprobe, the function entry/exit probe with
> > > > > multiple probe point support. This also introduces the rethook
> > > > > for hooking function return as same as kretprobe does. This
> > > >
> > > > nice, I was going through the multi-user-graph support
> > > > and was wondering that this might be a better way
> > > >
> > > > > abstraction will help us to generalize the fgraph tracer,
> > > > > because we can just switch it from rethook in fprobe, depending
> > > > > on the kernel configuration.
> > > > >
> > > > > The patch [1/8] and [7/8] are from your series[1]. Other libbpf
> > > > > patches will not be affected by this change.
> > > >
> > > > I'll try the bpf selftests on top of this
> > >
> > > I'm getting crash and stall when running bpf selftests,
> > > the fprobe sample module works fine, I'll check on that
> >
> > I've tried to build tools/testing/selftests/bpf on my machine,
> > but I got below errors. Would you know how I can setup to build
> > the bpf selftests correctly? (I tried "make M=samples/bpf", but same result)
>
> what's your clang version? your distro might be behind,

If you have very recent Clang, decently recent pahole, and qemu, try
using vmtest.sh. That should build the kernel with all the necessary
kernel config options and start qemu image with that latest image and
build selftests. And even run selftests automatically.

> I'm using clang 14 compiled from sources:
>
>         $ /opt/clang/bin/clang --version
>         clang version 14.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git 9f8ffaaa0bddcefeec15a3df9858fd50b05fcbae)
>         Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
>         Thread model: posix
>         InstalledDir: /opt/clang/bin
>
> and compiling bpf selftests with:
>
>         $ CLANG=/opt/clang/bin/clang make
>
> jirka
>
>
> >

[...]

> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > --
> > Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> >
>