linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] tracing/perf: guard syscall probe with preempt

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Message-ID: <20241008192115.72cabba4@gandalf.local.home>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 19:21:15 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
 Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>, "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, Ingo
 Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, Mark
 Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>, Alexander Shishkin
 <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
 Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org, Joel
 Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>, linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Michael Jeanson <mjeanson@...icios.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/8] tracing/perf: guard syscall probe with
 preempt_notrace

On Fri,  4 Oct 2024 10:58:13 -0400
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com> wrote:

>  #undef DECLARE_EVENT_SYSCALL_CLASS
> -#define DECLARE_EVENT_SYSCALL_CLASS DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS
> +#define DECLARE_EVENT_SYSCALL_CLASS(call, proto, args, tstruct, assign, print) \
> +__DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS(call, PARAMS(proto), PARAMS(args), PARAMS(tstruct), \
> +		      PARAMS(assign), PARAMS(print))			\
> +static notrace void							\
> +perf_trace_##call(void *__data, proto)					\
> +{									\
> +	u64 __count __attribute__((unused));				\
> +	struct task_struct *__task __attribute__((unused));		\
> +									\
> +	guard(preempt_notrace)();					\
> +	do_perf_trace_##call(__data, args);				\
> +}
>  

Same here. The new guard() interface is really nice for complex functions,
but looks a bit overkill to cover a single line.

-- Steve