netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] enable creating [k,u]probe with perf_event

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Message-ID: <33ee2501-14b8-5e89-d84f-e903b4cdd9e7@fb.com>
Date:   Mon, 9 Apr 2018 21:54:43 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>
To:     Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>
CC:     <peterz@...radead.org>, <rostedt@...dmis.org>, <mingo@...hat.com>,
        <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        <kernel-team@...com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        "Naveen N. Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] enable creating [k,u]probe with perf_event_open

On 4/9/18 9:45 PM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> Hi Song,
>
> On 12/07/2017 04:15 AM, Song Liu wrote:
>> With current kernel, user space tools can only create/destroy [k,u]probes
>> with a text-based API (kprobe_events and uprobe_events in tracefs). This
>> approach relies on user space to clean up the [k,u]probe after using them.
>> However, this is not easy for user space to clean up properly.
>>
>> To solve this problem, we introduce a file descriptor based API.
>> Specifically, we extended perf_event_open to create [k,u]probe, and attach
>> this [k,u]probe to the file descriptor created by perf_event_open. These
>> [k,u]probe are associated with this file descriptor, so they are not
>> available in tracefs.
>
> Sorry for being late. One simple question..
>
> Will it be good to support k/uprobe arguments with perf_event_open()?
> Do you have any plans about that?

no plans for that. People that use text based interfaces should
probably be using text interfaces consistently.
imo mixing FD-based kprobe api with text is not worth the complexity.