Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] kretprobe: produce sane stack traces

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Sat Nov 03 2018 - 09:13:49 EST


On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 22:00:12 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 12:13:07 -0400
> Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>

> > Because that means if function graph tracer is active, then you can't
> > do a kretprobe, and vice versa. I'd really like to have it working for
> > multiple users, then we could trace different graph functions and store
> > them in different buffers. It would also allow for perf to use function
> > graph tracer too.
>
> Steve, how woul you allow multiple users on it? Something like this?
>
> ret_trampoline_multiple(){
> list_for_each(handler, &shadow_entry[i].handlers, list)
> handler(shadow_entry[i]);
> restore_retval_and_jump_to(shadow_entry[i].orig);
> }
>

Something like that. But since it's not a single mapping between shadow
entries and handlers, that is we have multiple tasks with multiple
shadow entries and multiple handlers, we can't use a link list (two
different parents per handler).

I was thinking of a bitmask that represents the handlers, and use that
to map which handler gets called for which shadow entry for a
particular task.

-- Steve