Re: [RFC PATCH bpf-next 1/2] libbpf: Add support for dynamic tracepoint

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On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Jan 5, 2025 at 4:44 AM Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Dynamic tracepoints can be created using debugfs. For example:
> >
> >    echo 'p:myprobe kernel_clone args' >> /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
> >
> > This command creates a new tracepoint under debugfs:
> >
> >   $ ls /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/kprobes/myprobe/
> >   enable  filter  format  hist  id  trigger
> >
> > Although this dynamic tracepoint appears as a tracepoint, it is internally
> > implemented as a kprobe. However, it must be attached as a tracepoint to
> > function correctly in certain contexts.
>
> Nack.
> There are multiple mechanisms to create kprobe/tp via text interfaces.
> We're not going to mix them with the programmatic libbpf api.

It appears that bpftrace still lacks support for adding a kprobe/tp
and then attaching to it directly. Is that correct?
What do you think about introducing this mechanism into bpftrace? With
such a feature, we could easily attach to inlined kernel functions
using bpftrace.

--
Regards
Yafang





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