netdev - Re: [PATCH v3] net: Add trace events for all receive exit points

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Date:   Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:27:50 -0500
From:   Geneviève Bastien <gbastien@...satic.net>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, mingo@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] net: Add trace events for all receive exit points


On 2018-11-18 1:19 a.m., David Miller wrote:
> From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 13:27:29 -0500 (EST)
>
>> I see two possible solutions:
>>
>> 1) Remove the "skb" argument from the sbk_exit tracepoints completely.
>> Anyway, I think it's not really needed for analysis purposes because
>> we can link the "entry" with the associated "exit" using the thread ID
>> executing those tracepoints.  (Genevi�ve, would that work for your
>> analyses ?)
>>
>> 2) Move the skb_exit tracepoints before freeing the skb pointer. My
>> concern here is that the instrumentation may become much uglier than
>> the currently proposed patch. (I have not looked at the specifics
>> though, so I may be wrong.)
>>
>> Do you have a preference between those two approaches, or perhaps you
>> have an alternative solution in mind ?
> I wonder how other situations handle this.
>
> About #2, if you put the tracepoint beforehand you can't log the
> 'ret' value.  So at least in that regard I prefer #1.
>
> If tracepoints generally handle this by matching up the thread
> ID, then definitely that's how we should do it here too instead
> of trying to use the SKB pointer for this purpose.

I would go for #1 too, the "skb" is not used to match entry/exit, it is more the context in which they appear (thread, softirq, etc). And I did indeed get seg faults on my first attempt when I tried to use the existing templates.

There's just the list tracepoint that would now log nothing, so there's no point looping through the list.