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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	acme@kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com, kjain@linux.ibm.com,
	kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 bpf-next 2/3] bpf: introduce helper bpf_get_branch_snapshot
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 10:47:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTHhOy1gqr44C1bI@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210902165706.2812867-3-songliubraving@fb.com>

On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 09:57:05AM -0700, Song Liu wrote:
> +BPF_CALL_3(bpf_get_branch_snapshot, void *, buf, u32, size, u64, flags)
> +{
> +	static const u32 br_entry_size = sizeof(struct perf_branch_entry);
> +	u32 entry_cnt = size / br_entry_size;
> +
> +	if (unlikely(flags))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	if (!buf || (size % br_entry_size != 0))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +
> +	entry_cnt = static_call(perf_snapshot_branch_stack)(buf, entry_cnt);

That's at least 2, possibly 3 branches just from the sanity checks, plus
at least one from starting the BPF prog and one from calling this
function, gets you at ~5 branch entries gone before you even do the
snapshot thing.

Less if you're in branch-stack mode.

Can't the validator help with getting rid of the some of that?

I suppose you have to have this helper function because the JIT cannot
emit static_call()... although in this case one could cheat and simply
emit a call to static_call_query() and not bother with dynamic updates
(because there aren't any).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-03  8:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-02 16:57 [PATCH v5 bpf-next 0/3] bpf: introduce bpf_get_branch_snapshot Song Liu
2021-09-02 16:57 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 1/3] perf: enable branch record for software events Song Liu
2021-09-02 20:49   ` John Fastabend
2021-09-03  8:02   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-03 16:50     ` Song Liu
2021-09-07 18:59       ` Song Liu
2021-09-07 20:50         ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-09-03  8:27   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-03 16:45     ` Song Liu
2021-09-04 10:18       ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-02 16:57 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 2/3] bpf: introduce helper bpf_get_branch_snapshot Song Liu
2021-09-02 20:56   ` John Fastabend
2021-09-02 22:04     ` Song Liu
2021-09-02 22:53   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-09-02 23:03     ` Song Liu
2021-09-02 23:05       ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-09-03  1:03   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-09-03  8:28   ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-03 16:58     ` Song Liu
2021-09-03  8:47   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2021-09-03 17:06     ` Song Liu
2021-09-03 17:10     ` Andrii Nakryiko
2021-09-04 10:24       ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-04 10:55         ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-02 16:57 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 3/3] selftests/bpf: add test for bpf_get_branch_snapshot Song Liu
2021-09-02 21:05   ` John Fastabend
2021-09-02 22:54 ` [PATCH v5 bpf-next 0/3] bpf: introduce bpf_get_branch_snapshot Andrii Nakryiko

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