Re: [PATCH v3 07/11] perf: Add breakpoint information to siginfo on SIGTRAP

[Ingo Molnar]

* Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Yeah, so why cannot we allocate enough space from the signal 
> > handler user-space stack and put the attr there, and point to it 
> > from sig_info?
> >
> > The idea would be to create a stable, per-signal snapshot of 
> > whatever the perf_attr state is at the moment the event happens 
> > and the signal is generated - which is roughly what user-space 
> > wants, right?
> 
> I certainly couldn't say how feasible this is. Is there 
> infrastructure in place to do this? Or do we have to introduce 
> support for stashing things on the signal stack?
> 
> From what we can tell, the most flexible option though appears to be 
> just some user settable opaque data in perf_event_attr, that is 
> copied to siginfo. It'd allow user space to store a pointer or a 
> hash/key, or just encode the relevant information it wants; but 
> could also go further, and add information beyond perf_event_attr, 
> such as things like a signal receiver filter (e.g. task ID or set of 
> threads which should process the signal etc.).
> 
> So if there's no strong objection to the additional field in 
> perf_event_attr, I think it'll give us the simplest and most 
> flexible option.

Sounds good to me - it's also probably measurably faster than copying 
the not-so-small-anymore perf_attr structure.

Thanks,

	Ingo