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

[Ingo Molnar]

* Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> wrote:

> I guess the second reason is why the stap takes so long time to set 
> probes. stap tries to register kprobes without disabled flag, that 
> means we enables thousands of probes (overheads).
> 
> So the similar thing happens when we enables events as below;
> 
>   # for i in /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/* ; do date; echo 1 > $i; done
>   Wed Jan 29 10:44:50 UTC 2014
>   ...
> 
> I tried it and canceled after 4 min passed. It enabled about 17k 
> events and slowed down my system very much(I almost got hang check 
> timer).

Ok, I guess that's the slowdown bug that Frank reported.

> I think we should have some performance statistics (hit count?) and 
> if it goes over a threshold, we should stop enabling other events.

That really feels like a hack. How about fixing the root cause? Does 
the enabling of all probes have to be so slow?

Thanks,

	Ingo