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Date:   Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:38:28 +0100
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
Cc:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...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>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "Naveen N . Rao" <naveen.n.rao@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 0/8] fprobe: Introduce fprobe function entry/exit
 probe

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 05:08:32PM -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 6:02 AM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Jiri and Alexei,
> >
> > Here is the 2nd version of fprobe. This version uses the
> > ftrace_set_filter_ips() for reducing the registering overhead.
> > Note that this also drops per-probe point private data, which
> > is not used anyway.
> 
> This per-probe private data is necessary for the feature called BPF
> cookie, in which each attachment has a unique user-provided u64 value
> associated to it, accessible at runtime through
> bpf_get_attach_cookie() helper. One way or another we'll need to
> support this to make these multi-attach BPF programs really useful for
> generic tracing applications.
> 
> Jiri,
> 
> We've discussed with Alexei this week how cookies can be supported for
> multi-attach fentry (where it seems even more challenging than in
> kprobe case), and agreed on rather simple solution, which roughly goes
> like this. When multi-attaching either fentry/fexit program, save
> sorted array of IP addresses and then sorted in the same order as IPs
> list of u64 cookies. At runtime, bpf_get_attach_cookie() helper should
> somehow get access to these two arrays and functions IP (that we
> already have with bpf_get_func_ip()), perform binary search and locate
> necessary cookie. This offloads the overhead of finding this cookie to
> actual call site of bpf_get_attach_cookie() (and it's a log(N), so not
> bad at all, especially if BPF program can be optimized to call this
> helper just once).
> 
> I think something like that should be doable for Masami's fprobe-based
> multi-attach kprobes, right? That would allow to have super-fast
> attachment, but still support BPF cookie per each individual IP/kernel
> function attachment. I haven't looked at code thoroughly, though,
> please let me know if I'm missing something fundamental.

ok, that seems doable, we should be able to get the link struct
in bpf_get_attach_cookie_trace and reach both ips and cookies

jirka

> 
> >
> > This introduces the fprobe, the function entry/exit probe with
> > multiple probe point support. This also introduces the rethook
> > for hooking function return as same as kretprobe does. This
> > abstraction will help us to generalize the fgraph tracer,
> > because we can just switch it from rethook in fprobe, depending
> > on the kernel configuration.
> >
> > The patch [1/8] and [7/8] are from your series[1]. Other libbpf
> > patches will not be affected by this change.
> >
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220104080943.113249-1-jolsa@kernel.org/T/#u
> >
> > I also added an out-of-tree (just for testing) patch at the
> > end of this series ([8/8]) for adding a wildcard support to
> > the sample program. With that patch, it shows how long the
> > registration will take;
> >
> > # time insmod fprobe_example.ko symbol='btrfs_*'
> > [   36.130947] fprobe_init: 1028 symbols found
> > [   36.177901] fprobe_init: Planted fprobe at btrfs_*
> > real    0m 0.08s
> > user    0m 0.00s
> > sys     0m 0.07s
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Jiri Olsa (2):
> >       ftrace: Add ftrace_set_filter_ips function
> >       bpf: Add kprobe link for attaching raw kprobes
> >
> > Masami Hiramatsu (6):
> >       fprobe: Add ftrace based probe APIs
> >       rethook: Add a generic return hook
> >       rethook: x86: Add rethook x86 implementation
> >       fprobe: Add exit_handler support
> >       fprobe: Add sample program for fprobe
> >       [DO NOT MERGE] Out-of-tree: Support wildcard symbol option to sample
> >
> >
> >  arch/x86/Kconfig                |    1
> >  arch/x86/kernel/Makefile        |    1
> >  arch/x86/kernel/rethook.c       |  115 ++++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/bpf_types.h       |    1
> >  include/linux/fprobe.h          |   57 ++++++++++
> >  include/linux/ftrace.h          |    3 +
> >  include/linux/rethook.h         |   74 +++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/sched.h           |    3 +
> >  include/uapi/linux/bpf.h        |   12 ++
> >  kernel/bpf/syscall.c            |  195 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> >  kernel/exit.c                   |    2
> >  kernel/fork.c                   |    3 +
> >  kernel/kallsyms.c               |    1
> >  kernel/trace/Kconfig            |   22 ++++
> >  kernel/trace/Makefile           |    2
> >  kernel/trace/fprobe.c           |  168 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  kernel/trace/ftrace.c           |   54 ++++++++-
> >  kernel/trace/rethook.c          |  226 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  samples/Kconfig                 |    7 +
> >  samples/Makefile                |    1
> >  samples/fprobe/Makefile         |    3 +
> >  samples/fprobe/fprobe_example.c |  154 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h  |   12 ++
> >  23 files changed, 1103 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/x86/kernel/rethook.c
> >  create mode 100644 include/linux/fprobe.h
> >  create mode 100644 include/linux/rethook.h
> >  create mode 100644 kernel/trace/fprobe.c
> >  create mode 100644 kernel/trace/rethook.c
> >  create mode 100644 samples/fprobe/Makefile
> >  create mode 100644 samples/fprobe/fprobe_example.c
> >
> > --
> > Masami Hiramatsu (Linaro) <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> 

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