netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4 00/27] x86/ftrace/bpf: Add batch support for direct/tracing attach

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Date:   Sun, 29 Aug 2021 10:04:25 -0700
From:   Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>,
        "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        John Fastabend <john.fastabend@...il.com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...omium.org>, Daniel Xu <dxu@...uu.xyz>,
        Viktor Malik <vmalik@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v4 00/27] x86/ftrace/bpf: Add batch support for
 direct/tracing attach

On Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 09:38:55PM +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> hi,
> sending new version of batch attach support, previous post
> is in here [1].
> 
> The previous post could not assign multi trampoline on top
> of regular trampolines. This patchset is trying to address
> that, plus it has other fixes from last post.
> 
> This patchset contains:
>   1) patches (1-4) that fix the ftrace graph tracing over the function
>      with direct trampolines attached
>   2) patches (5-8) that add batch interface for ftrace direct function
>      register/unregister/modify
>   3) patches (9-27) that add support to attach BPF program to multiple
>      functions

I did a quick look and it looks ok, but probably will require another respin.
In the mean would be great to land the first 8 patches for the upcoming merge
window.
Jiri,
can you respin them quickly addressing build bot issues and maybe
Steven can apply them into his tracing tree for the merge window?
Then during the next release cycle we will only iterate on bpf bits in the
later patches.
Thoughts?