Re: [PATCH] x86/tracing: introduce enter/exit tracepoint pairs for page faults
From: Dave Hansen
Date: Mon Apr 14 2025 - 19:37:29 EST
On 4/14/25 16:22, Junxuan Liao wrote:
> On 4/14/25 6:14 PM, Junxuan Liao wrote:
>> Do people find separate user/kernel tracepoints useful? For me, I can
>> check regs in eBPF tracing code instead.
> I think it might be good to add a field to the tracepoints to indicate
> whether it's in user space or not.
Sounds sane to me. Doing something like this:
TP_STRUCT__entry(
__field( unsigned long, address )
__field( unsigned long, ip )
+ __field( bool , user_mode)
__field( unsigned long, error_code )
),
TP_fast_assign(
__entry->address = address;
__entry->ip = regs->ip;
+ __entry->user_mode = user_mode(regs);
__entry->error_code = error_code;
),
seems highly superior to having two sets of tracepoints and static keys.