hi, this patchset adds support to optimize usdt probes on top of 5-byte nop instruction. The generic approach (optimize all uprobes) is hard due to emulating possible multiple original instructions and its related issues. The usdt case, which stores 5-byte nop seems much easier, so starting with that. The basic idea is to replace breakpoint exception with syscall which is faster on x86_64. For more details please see changelog of patch 7. The first benchmark shows about 68% speed up (see below). The benchmark triggers usdt probe in a loop and counts how many of those happened per second. It's still rfc state with some loose ends, but I'd be interested in any feedback about the direction of this. It's based on tip/perf/core with bpf-next/master merged on top of that together with uprobe session patchset. thanks, jirka current: # ./bench -w2 -d5 -a trig-usdt Setting up benchmark 'trig-usdt'... Benchmark 'trig-usdt' started. Iter 0 ( 46.982us): hits 4.893M/s ( 4.893M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 4.893M/s Iter 1 ( -5.967us): hits 4.892M/s ( 4.892M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 4.892M/s Iter 2 ( -2.771us): hits 4.899M/s ( 4.899M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 4.899M/s Iter 3 ( 1.286us): hits 4.889M/s ( 4.889M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 4.889M/s Iter 4 ( -2.871us): hits 4.881M/s ( 4.881M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 4.881M/s Iter 5 ( 1.005us): hits 4.886M/s ( 4.886M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 4.886M/s Iter 6 ( 11.626us): hits 4.906M/s ( 4.906M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 4.906M/s Iter 7 ( -6.638us): hits 4.896M/s ( 4.896M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 4.896M/s Summary: hits 4.893 +- 0.009M/s ( 4.893M/prod), drops 0.000 +- 0.000M/s, total operations 4.893 +- 0.009M/s optimized: # ./bench -w2 -d5 -a trig-usdt Setting up benchmark 'trig-usdt'... Benchmark 'trig-usdt' started. Iter 0 ( 46.073us): hits 8.258M/s ( 8.258M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 8.258M/s Iter 1 ( -5.752us): hits 8.264M/s ( 8.264M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 8.264M/s Iter 2 ( -1.333us): hits 8.263M/s ( 8.263M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 8.263M/s Iter 3 ( -2.996us): hits 8.265M/s ( 8.265M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 8.265M/s Iter 4 ( -0.620us): hits 8.264M/s ( 8.264M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 8.264M/s Iter 5 ( -2.624us): hits 8.236M/s ( 8.236M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 8.236M/s Iter 6 ( -0.840us): hits 8.232M/s ( 8.232M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 8.232M/s Iter 7 ( -1.783us): hits 8.235M/s ( 8.235M/prod), drops 0.000M/s, total operations 8.235M/s Summary: hits 8.249 +- 0.016M/s ( 8.249M/prod), drops 0.000 +- 0.000M/s, total operations 8.249 +- 0.016M/s --- Jiri Olsa (11): uprobes: Rename arch_uretprobe_trampoline function uprobes: Make copy_from_page global uprobes: Add len argument to uprobe_write_opcode uprobes: Add data argument to uprobe_write_opcode function uprobes: Add mapping for optimized uprobe trampolines uprobes: Add uprobe syscall to speed up uprobe uprobes/x86: Add support to optimize uprobes selftests/bpf: Use 5-byte nop for x86 usdt probes selftests/bpf: Add usdt trigger bench selftests/bpf: Add uprobe/usdt optimized test selftests/bpf: Add hit/attach/detach race optimized uprobe test arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/uprobes.h | 7 +++ arch/x86/kernel/uprobes.c | 180 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 + include/linux/uprobes.h | 25 +++++++++- kernel/events/uprobes.c | 222 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ kernel/fork.c | 2 + kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bench.c | 2 + tools/testing/selftests/bpf/benchs/bench_trigger.c | 45 +++++++++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/uprobe_optimized.c | 252 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/trigger_bench.c | 10 +++- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/uprobe_optimized.c | 29 +++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/sdt.h | 9 +++- 14 files changed, 768 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/uprobe_optimized.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/uprobe_optimized.c