Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 0/6] enable creating [k,u]probe with perf_event_open | From | Alexei Starovoitov <> | Date | Mon, 9 Apr 2018 21:54:43 -0700 |
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On 4/9/18 9:45 PM, Ravi Bangoria wrote: > Hi Song, > > On 12/07/2017 04:15 AM, Song Liu wrote: >> With current kernel, user space tools can only create/destroy [k,u]probes >> with a text-based API (kprobe_events and uprobe_events in tracefs). This >> approach relies on user space to clean up the [k,u]probe after using them. >> However, this is not easy for user space to clean up properly. >> >> To solve this problem, we introduce a file descriptor based API. >> Specifically, we extended perf_event_open to create [k,u]probe, and attach >> this [k,u]probe to the file descriptor created by perf_event_open. These >> [k,u]probe are associated with this file descriptor, so they are not >> available in tracefs. > > Sorry for being late. One simple question.. > > Will it be good to support k/uprobe arguments with perf_event_open()? > Do you have any plans about that?
no plans for that. People that use text based interfaces should probably be using text interfaces consistently. imo mixing FD-based kprobe api with text is not worth the complexity.
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