From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@google.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Karim Yaghmour <karim.yaghmour@opersys.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:58:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKOZuetHG0O-CiO6h5tD7aht_MT70ebwWMMSPkRUHdiM3wVq0Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190311193612.4f09bf11@oasis.local.home>
On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 4:37 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 16:44:31 -0500
> Karim Yaghmour <karim.yaghmour@opersys.com> wrote:
>
>
> > Sorry, I should've been clearer. I'm including eBPF/BCC into the
> > "user-space tools" here. That was in fact my prime motivation in
> > encouraging Joel at the last LPC to look at this. I've been integrating
> > the teaching of eBPF into my AOSP debugging and performance analysis
> > class (see CC courseware here:
> > http://www.opersys.com/training/android-debug-and-performance), and it
> > was pretty messy trying to show people how to benefit from such tools
> > under Android. Joel's present set of patches would obviate this problem.
>
> I've been reading this thread and staying out for the most part. But I
> was thinking about how I could use kernel headers for things like
> kprobes, and I want to mention the pony that I would like to have :-)
>
> Are headers really needed, and more importantly, are they enough? What
> if userspace is 32bit and the kernel is 64bit. Can ebpf scripts handle
> that?
Why would eBPF care about the bit width of userspace? I've thought a
lot about inspecting user state from the kernel and have some weird
ideas in that area (e.g., why not register eBPF programs to unwind
user stacks?) --- but I think that Joel's work is independent of all
that. I'm curious what you think we can do about userspace. I wish we
could just compile the world with frame pointers, but we can't.
> What I would love, is a table that has all structures and their fields
> with information about their types, size and signed types. Like the
> format fields in the events directory. This way ebpf (and kprobes,
> internally in the kernel) could access this table and be able to know
> what the data structures of the kernel is).
Think of the headers as encoding this information and more and the C
compiler as a magical decoder ring. :-) I totally get the desire for a
metadata format a little less messy than C code, but as a practical
matter, a rich C-compilation pipeline already exists, and the
debuginfo you're proposing doesn't, except in the form of DWARF, which
I think would be even more controversial to embed in the kernel memory
image than headers are. A header blob provides a strict superset of
the information your scheme provides.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-11 23:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-01 16:08 [PATCH v4 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-01 16:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] Add selftests for module build using in-kernel headers Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-02 21:59 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel kbuild test robot
2019-03-03 16:11 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-06 12:26 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-06 17:49 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 4:59 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-07 14:54 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 23:23 ` Justin Capella
2019-03-06 18:16 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 4:54 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-03 2:04 ` kbuild test robot
2019-03-04 14:00 ` Qais Yousef
2019-03-05 16:27 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-04 22:48 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-03-05 16:25 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 8:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-07 15:03 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 15:23 ` Greg KH
2019-03-07 16:54 ` Joel Fernandes
[not found] ` <20190318185742.109dee5c@alans-desktop>
2019-03-18 19:11 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-18 21:11 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-08 8:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-08 13:42 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-08 13:57 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-08 14:04 ` Greg KH
2019-03-08 14:02 ` Greg KH
2019-03-08 17:58 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-08 17:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-09 7:16 ` Greg KH
2019-03-09 11:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-09 12:11 ` Greg KH
2019-03-09 16:51 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-09 19:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-09 21:44 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-11 8:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-12 15:15 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-11 23:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-11 23:58 ` Daniel Colascione [this message]
2019-03-12 0:39 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-12 1:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-12 1:38 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-13 1:18 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-03-14 12:27 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-15 13:14 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-03-12 1:45 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-03-12 15:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-12 1:22 ` Steven Rostedt
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