On Thu, Sep 17, 2020 at 1:25 AM Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Ideally resolve_btfids would parse dwarf info and check > > whether any of the funcs in allowlist were inlined. > > That would be more reliable, but not pretty to drag libdw > > dependency into resolve_btfids. > > hm, we could add some check to perf|bpftrace that would > show you all the places where function is called from and > if it was inlined or is a regular call.. so user is aware > what probe calls to expect The check like this belongs in some library, but making libbpf depend on dwarf is not great. I think we're at the point where we need to break libbpf into many libraries. This one could be called libbpftrace. It would potentially include symbolizer and other dwarf related operations. Such inlining check would be good to do not only for d_path allowlist, but for any kprobe/fentry function.
