[PATCH -tip v6 00/22] kprobes: introduce NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(), cleanup and fixes crash bugs

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi, Masami -


masami.hiramatsu.pt wrote:

> Here is the version 6 of NOKPROBE_SYMBOL series. :)
> [...]

Some preliminary results from building these on top of tip/master on
x86-64.  

# stap -te "probe kprobe.function("*") {}"

starts up OK, without crashes, which looks like great progress.  But a
closer look indicates that the insertion of kprobes is taking about
three (!!) orders of magnitude longer than before, as judged by the
rate of increase of 'wc -l /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list'.  So, one
has to let the thing run for several hours just to get all the kprobes
inserted, never mind letting stress-testing begin.

For reference, here's the steady-state "perf top" output during all this
insertion work:

 54.81%  [kernel]                    [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
 38.13%  [kernel]                    [k] __slab_alloc
  1.11%  [kernel]                    [k] kprobe_ftrace_handler
  0.88%  [kernel]                    [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irq

More notes once the machine gets far enough to get to the robustness
testing phase.

- FChE