linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] livepatch: introduce klp

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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:23:19 +0800
From: zhang warden <zhangwarden@...il.com>
To: Song Liu <song@...nel.org>
Cc: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
 Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
 Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...nel.org>,
 Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
 Joe Lawrence <joe.lawrence@...hat.com>,
 live-patching@...r.kernel.org,
 LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] livepatch: introduce klp_func called interface


> We don't have very urgent use for this. As we discussed, various tracing
> tools are sufficient in most cases. I brought this up in the context of the
> "called" entry: if we are really adding a new entry, let's do "counter"
> instead of "called".
> 
> Thanks,
> Song

Hi, Song

I hope to find a way to optimize "called" will be set once in klp_ftrace_ops function because as Petr said this function should be as fast as possible. But if use "count", this variable will be called every time klp_ftrace_ops run.

Regards,
Wardenjohn