Re: [PATCH v4 tip 3/7] tracing: allow BPF programs to call ktime_get_ns()

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:20 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> +static u64 bpf_ktime_get_ns(u64 r1, u64 r2, u64 r3, u64 r4, u64 r5)
>> +{
>> +     return ktime_get_ns();
>> +}
>
> Please use ktime_get_mono_fast_ns() instead. If you ever want to allow
> running BPF stuff from general tracepoints and the like you need to
> be NMI safe.

good point. will do.
Currently in trace_call_bpf() I have:
if (in_nmi()) /* not supported yet */
  return 1;
to tackle nmi after all pieces are in place.
Likely nmi-safe programs will have access to reduced set
of helper functions.
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