Re: [PATCH v3 00/27] function_graph: Allow multiple users for function graph tracing

From: Mark Rutland
Date: Wed Jun 05 2024 - 10:08:14 EST


On Mon, Jun 03, 2024 at 03:07:04PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> This is a continuation of the function graph multi user code.
> I wrote a proof of concept back in 2019 of this code[1] and
> Masami started cleaning it up. I started from Masami's work v10
> that can be found here:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/171509088006.162236.7227326999861366050.stgit@devnote2/
>
> This is *only* the code that allows multiple users of function
> graph tracing. This is not the fprobe work that Masami is working
> to add on top of it. As Masami took my proof of concept, there
> was still several things I disliked about that code. Instead of
> having Masami clean it up even more, I decided to take over on just
> my code and change it up a bit.

FWIW, this is useful to me as-is for testing stacktracing.

Before this series I had some horrid hacks to manipulate the global
filters, and after this series I just need to manipulate the filters in
fgraph_ops::ops, which is *much* nicer.

I've pushed out my WIP to:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mark/linux.git/log/?h=stacktrace/tests

... which is all to say, this is useful and I've given this some testing
beyond the usual ftrace tests.

Mark.