Thread (64 messages) 64 messages, 8 authors, 2025-09-10

Re: nop5-optimized USDTs WAS: Re: [PATCHv6 perf/core 09/22] uprobes/x86: Add uprobe syscall to speed up uprobe

From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: 2025-09-04 20:35:24
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On Thu, Sep 04, 2025 at 11:27:45AM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
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So I've been thinking what's the simplest and most reliable way to
feature-detect support for this sys_uprobe (e.g., for libbpf to know
whether we should attach at nop5 vs nop1), and clearly that would be
wrt nop5/nop1.. so the idea is to have USDT macro emit both nop1,nop5
and store some info about that in the usdt's elf note, right?
Wait, what? You're doing to emit 6 bytes and two nops? Why? Surely the
old kernel can INT3 on top of a NOP5?



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