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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 13:34:54 +0100 From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>, x86@...nel.org, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 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: [PATCH v13 bpf-next 1/1] rethook: x86: Add rethook x86 implementation On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 08:41:19PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > Also, what's rethook for anyway? > > Rethook is a feature which hooks the function return. Most of the > logic came from the kretprobe. Simply to say, 'kretprobe - kprobe' is > the rethook :) I got that far, but why did you take the bother to do these patches? Why wasn't 'use kretprobe' a good enough option?
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