Re: [PATCH v5 2/9] fprobe: Add ftrace based probe APIs

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 11:50:22 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > one more question..
> > 
> > I'm adding support for user to pass function symbols to bpf fprobe link
> > and I thought I'd pass symbols array to register_fprobe, but I'd need to
> > copy the whole array of strings from user space first, which could take
> > lot of memory considering attachment of 10k+ functions
> > 
> > so I'm thinking better way is to resolve symbols already in bpf fprobe
> > link code and pass just addresses to register_fprobe
> 
> That is OK. Fprobe accepts either ::syms or ::addrs.
> 
> > 
> > I assume you want to keep symbol interface, right? could we have some
> > flag ensuring the conversion code is skipped, so we don't go through
> > it twice?
> 
> Yeah, we still have many unused bits in fprobe::flags. :)

Instead of that, according to Steve's comment, I would like to introduce
3 registration APIs.

int register_fprobe(struct fprobe *fp, const char *filter, const char *notrace);
int register_fprobe_ips(struct fprobe *fp, unsigned long *addrs, int num);
int register_fprobe_syms(struct fprobe *fp, const char **syms, int num);

The register_fprobe_ips() will not touch the @addrs. You have to set the
correct ftrace location address in the @addrs.

Thank you,

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Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>