Re: [PATCH] staging: tracing/kprobe: filter kprobe based perf event

[Jinshan Xiong]

That's bloody true. Thanks for your insights.

I will make an example program and commit into bcc repository.

Jinshan


On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 1:22 PM Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 8:13 AM Jinshan Xiong <jinshan.xiong@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The problem with the current approach is that it would be difficult to filter cgroup, especially the cgroup in question has descendents, and also it would spawn new descendents after BPF program is installed. it's hard to filter it inside a BPF program.
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> Why is that?
> bpf_current_task_under_cgroup() fits exactly that purpose.