Re: [PATCH] kretprobe events missing on 2-core KVM guest

From: Google
Date: Tue Oct 25 2022 - 11:33:24 EST


On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 18:01:17 +0800
wuqiang <wuqiang.matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Default value of maxactive is set as num_possible_cpus() for nonpreemptable
> systems. For a 2-core system, only 2 kretprobe instances would be allocated
> in default, then these 2 instances for execve kretprobe are very likely to
> be used up with a pipelined command.
>
> This patch increases the minimum of maxactive to 10.
>

This looks reasonable to me.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!

> Signed-off-by: wuqiang <wuqiang.matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/kprobes.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> index 3220b0a2fb4a..b781dee3f552 100644
> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -2211,7 +2211,7 @@ int register_kretprobe(struct kretprobe *rp)
> #ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPTION
> rp->maxactive = max_t(unsigned int, 10, 2*num_possible_cpus());
> #else
> - rp->maxactive = num_possible_cpus();
> + rp->maxactive = max_t(unsigned int, 10, num_possible_cpus());
> #endif
> }
> #ifdef CONFIG_KRETPROBE_ON_RETHOOK
> --
> 2.34.1
>


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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>