Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 3 Aug 2016 21:04:55 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe events |
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On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 01:46:04 +0530 Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 04 August 2016 01:40 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 01:00:51 +0530 > > Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > > > >> > >>> Can a container have its own function tracing? > >> > >> Sorry, I didn't understand that. Do you mean to have a separate > >> per-container trace files? > > > > Actually, it's more my ignorance of containers, as I haven't had the > > need to play with them. Although, I think it may be time to do so. > > > > When a container enters kernel mode, I'm assuming that it's part of the > > host at that moment, and the host needs to take care of separating > > everything? That is, there's not a "second kernel" like VMs have, right? > > Yes. The host needs to take care of separating everything. There is no > "second kernel".
That's what I figured. Thus, my worry is that something like the function tracer can cause information leak to a container. How would you separate functions for the container from functions for the host?
-- Steve
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