KPROBES_ON_FTRACE avoids much of the overhead of regular kprobes as it
eliminates the need for a trap, as well as the need to emulate or single-step
instructions.
Though OPTPROBES provides us with similar performance, we have limited
optprobes trampoline slots. As such, when asked to probe at a function
entry, default to using the ftrace infrastructure.
With:
# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# echo 'p _do_fork' > kprobe_events
before patch:
# cat ../kprobes/list
c0000000000daf08 k _do_fork+0x8 [DISABLED]
c000000000044fc0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED]
and after patch:
# cat ../kprobes/list
c0000000000d074c k _do_fork+0xc [DISABLED][FTRACE]
c0000000000412b0 k kretprobe_trampoline+0x0 [OPTIMIZED]
Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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