linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH bpf-next 09/13] selftests/bpf: Use 5-byte nop for x86 usdt probes

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Message-ID: <CAEf4BzbF1Ei-MkKOM9N2nCRspVXpVLhpAYZFaaOUpDJ4HgJ6jA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2024 13:58:33 -0800
From: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, 
	Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, bpf@...r.kernel.org, Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, 
	Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>, John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>, Hao Luo <haoluo@...gle.com>, 
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>, 
	Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@...cle.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
	linux-trace-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 09/13] selftests/bpf: Use 5-byte nop for x86 usdt probes

On Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 5:35 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Using 5-byte nop for x86 usdt probes so we can switch
> to optimized uprobe them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/bpf/sdt.h | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>

This change will make it impossible to run latest selftests on older
kernels. Let's do what we did with -DENABLE_ATOMICS_TESTS and allow to
disable this through Makefile, ok?


> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/sdt.h b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/sdt.h
> index ca0162b4dc57..7ac9291f45f1 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/sdt.h
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/sdt.h
> @@ -234,6 +234,13 @@ __extension__ extern unsigned long long __sdt_unsp;
>  #define _SDT_NOP       nop
>  #endif
>
> +/* Use 5 byte nop for x86_64 to allow optimizing uprobes. */
> +#if defined(__x86_64__)
> +# define _SDT_DEF_NOP _SDT_ASM_5(990:  .byte 0x0f, 0x1f, 0x44, 0x00, 0x00)
> +#else
> +# define _SDT_DEF_NOP _SDT_ASM_1(990:  _SDT_NOP)
> +#endif
> +
>  #define _SDT_NOTE_NAME "stapsdt"
>  #define _SDT_NOTE_TYPE 3
>
> @@ -286,7 +293,7 @@ __extension__ extern unsigned long long __sdt_unsp;
>
>  #define _SDT_ASM_BODY(provider, name, pack_args, args, ...)                  \
>    _SDT_DEF_MACROS                                                            \
> -  _SDT_ASM_1(990:      _SDT_NOP)                                             \
> +  _SDT_DEF_NOP                                                               \
>    _SDT_ASM_3(          .pushsection .note.stapsdt,_SDT_ASM_AUTOGROUP,"note") \
>    _SDT_ASM_1(          .balign 4)                                            \
>    _SDT_ASM_3(          .4byte 992f-991f, 994f-993f, _SDT_NOTE_TYPE)          \
> --
> 2.47.0
>