Re: [v4,6/6] powerpc: kprobes: prefer ftrace when probing function entry

[Michael Ellerman]

On Wed, 2017-04-19 at 12:52:28 UTC, "Naveen N. Rao" wrote:
> KPROBES_ON_FTRACE avoids much of the overhead with regular kprobes as it
> eliminates the need for a trap, as well as the need to emulate or
> single-step instructions.
> 
> Though OPTPROBES provides us with similar performance, we have limited
> optprobes trampoline slots. As such, when asked to probe at a function
> entry, default to using the ftrace infrastructure.
> 
> With:
> 	# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
> 	# echo 'p _do_fork' > kprobe_events
> 
> before patch:
> 	# cat ../kprobes/list
> 	c0000000000daf08  k  _do_fork+0x8    [DISABLED]
> 	c000000000044fc0  k  kretprobe_trampoline+0x0    [OPTIMIZED]
> 
> and after patch:
> 	# cat ../kprobes/list
> 	c0000000000d074c  k  _do_fork+0xc    [DISABLED][FTRACE]
> 	c0000000000412b0  k  kretprobe_trampoline+0x0    [OPTIMIZED]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/24bd909e94776ecce95291bff910f1

cheers