Re: [PATCH v8 bpf-next 0/9] bpf, tracing: introduce bpf raw tracepoints

On 03/28/2018 09:05 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

v7->v8:
- moved 'u32 num_args' from 'struct tracepoint' into 'struct bpf_raw_event_map'
  that increases memory overhead, but can be optimized/compressed later.
  Now it's zero changes in tracepoint.[ch]

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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

Patch 1 is kernel wide cleanup of pass-struct-by-value into
pass-struct-by-reference into tracepoints.

Patches 2 and 3 are minor cleanups to address allyesconfig build

Patch 4 refactor trace_iwlwifi_dev_ucode_error from 17 to 4 args

Patch 5 introduces COUNT_ARGS macro

Patch 6 introduces BPF_RAW_TRACEPOINT api.
the auto-cleanup and multiple concurrent users are must have
features of tracing api. For bpf raw tracepoints it looks like:
  // load bpf prog with BPF_PROG_TYPE_RAW_TRACEPOINT type
  prog_fd = bpf_prog_load(...);

  // receive anon_inode fd for given bpf_raw_tracepoint
  // and attach bpf program to it
  raw_tp_fd = bpf_raw_tracepoint_open("xdp_exception", prog_fd);

Ctrl-C of tracing daemon or cmdline tool will automatically
detach bpf program, unload it and unregister tracepoint probe.
More details in patch 6.

Patch 7 - trivial support in libbpf
Patches 8, 9 - user space tests

samples/bpf/test_overhead performance on 1 cpu:

tracepoint    base  kprobe+bpf tracepoint+bpf raw_tracepoint+bpf
task_rename   1.1M   769K        947K            1.0M
urandom_read  789K   697K        750K            755K

Applied to bpf-next, thanks everyone!