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Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe events

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On Thu, 28 Jul 2016 02:57:38 +0530
Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> If a uprobe event is set on a library function, and if a similar uprobe
> event trace is needed for a container, a duplicate is created leaving
> the uprobe list with multiple entries of the same function:
> 
>   $ perf probe --list
>     probe_libc:malloc    (on 0x80490 in /lib64/libc.so.6)
>     probe_libc:malloc_1  (on __libc_malloc in /lib64/libc.so.6)
>   $
> 
> This can soon get out of hand if multiple containers want to probe the
> same function/address in their libraries. This patch tries to resolve this
> by adding uprobe event trace files to every new instance. Currently, perf
> tool can leverage this by using --debugfs-dir option - something like
> (assuming instance dir name is 'tracing'):
> 
>   $ perf --debugfs-dir=$MOUNT_PNT/instances probe /lib64/libc.so.6 malloc
>   $
>   $
>   $ perf --debugfs-dir=$MOUNT_PNT/instances probe --list
>     probe_libc:malloc    (on __libc_malloc in /lib64/libc.so.6)
>   $
> 
> New uprobe events can be added to the uprobe_events file under the instance
> directory and the profile information for these events will be available in
> uprobe_profile file in the same instance directory.

Hmm, this does change the behavior of normal instances.

# cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
# echo 'p /bin/bash:0x41adf0' > uprobe_events
# ls events/uprobes
enable filter p_bash_0x41adf0

# mkdir instances/foo
# ls instances/foo/events/uprobes
ls: cannot access instances/foo/events/uprobes: No such file or directory

Usually, instances will have the same events as the top level
directory. This will make uprobes, and only uprobes different. I'm not
sure if this is a bad thing or not, I'll have to think about it more.
But what would it take to have this only differ for containers, and not
normal instances?

-- Steve

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[RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe events Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-07-27 23:30 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe  events Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-08-01 23:50 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe  events Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-02 19:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe  events Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-08-02 20:10 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe  events Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-03 21:40 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe  events Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-08-03 22:20 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe  events Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-03 22:20 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe  events Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-08-04 03:10 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe  events Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-04 15:50 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe  events Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-08-04 16:20 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe  events Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-04 16:40 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe  events Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-02 20:40 +0200

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