Jisheng Zhang wrote:
KPROBES_ON_FTRACE avoids much of the overhead with regular kprobes as it eliminates the need for a trap, as well as the need to emulate or single-step instructions. Tested on berlin arm64 platform. ~ # mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug/ ~ # cd /sys/kernel/debug/ /sys/kernel/debug # echo 'p _do_fork' > tracing/kprobe_events before the patch: /sys/kernel/debug # cat kprobes/list ffffff801009fe28 k _do_fork+0x0 [DISABLED] after the patch: /sys/kernel/debug # cat kprobes/list ffffff801009ff54 k _do_fork+0x4 [DISABLED][FTRACE] Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <Jisheng.Zhang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - Naveen
