Re: [PATCH bpf-next 0/5] bpf, tracing: introduce bpf raw tracepoints

On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 02:36:07PM +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:

On 03/01/2018 05:19 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

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This patch set is a different way to address the pressing need to access
task_struct pointers in sched tracepoints from bpf programs.

The first approach simply added these pointers to sched tracepoints:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/14/753
which Peter nacked.
Few options were discussed and eventually the discussion converged on
doing bpf specific tracepoint_probe_register() probe functions.
Details here:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/20/929

Ping, Peter/Steven. If you have a chance, please review the series.

This series doesn't really touch anything I maintain, but the general
appraoch seems sane to me. I like the first patch that ensures
structures are passed by reference.

The rest is all tracepoint/bpf glue and I never really got into the bpf
internals, so I don't think I've got anything useful to say there.