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From: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: "davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"daniel@iogearbox.net" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	"x86@kernel.org" <x86@kernel.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"bpf@vger.kernel.org" <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 bpf-next 00/11] bpf: revolutionize bpf tracing
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2019 18:01:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191016180107.od7sz3qp6irqjgxe@kafai-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191016032505.2089704-1-ast@kernel.org>

On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 08:24:54PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> The end result is safer and faster bpf tracing.
> Safer - because type safe direct load can be used most of the time
> instead of bpf_probe_read().
> Faster - because direct loads are used to walk kernel data structures
> instead of bpf_probe_read() calls.
> Note that such loads can page fault and are supported by
> hidden bpf_probe_read() in interpreter and via exception table
> if program is JITed.
Exciting stuff!

Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-10-16 18:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-16  3:24 [PATCH v3 bpf-next 00/11] bpf: revolutionize bpf tracing Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16  3:24 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 01/11] bpf: add typecast to raw_tracepoints to help BTF generation Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16  3:24 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 02/11] bpf: add typecast to bpf helpers " Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16  3:24 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 03/11] bpf: process in-kernel BTF Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16  3:24 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 04/11] bpf: add attach_btf_id attribute to program load Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16 19:45   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-16 19:50     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16  3:24 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 05/11] libbpf: auto-detect btf_id of BTF-based raw_tracepoints Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16 19:49   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 06/11] bpf: implement accurate raw_tp context access via BTF Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16 20:09   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-16 21:21   ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-10-16 21:28     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16 22:08       ` Daniel Borkmann
2019-10-16 23:52         ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 07/11] bpf: attach raw_tp program with BTF via type name Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16 20:13   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 08/11] bpf: add support for BTF pointers to interpreter Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 09/11] bpf: add support for BTF pointers to x86 JIT Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16 20:15   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-10-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 10/11] bpf: check types of arguments passed into helpers Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 11/11] selftests/bpf: add kfree_skb raw_tp test Alexei Starovoitov
2019-10-16 18:01 ` Martin Lau [this message]
2019-10-17 15:14 ` [PATCH v3 bpf-next 00/11] bpf: revolutionize bpf tracing Daniel Borkmann

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