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From: Song Liu <liu.song.a23@gmail.com>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	mhiramat@kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	mingo@redhat.com, acme@kernel.org,
	alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, jolsa@redhat.com,
	namhyung@kernel.org, open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	Alexis Berlemont <alexis.berlemont@gmail.com>,
	naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@linux-mips.org,
	linux@armlinux.org.uk, ralf@linux-mips.org, paul.burton@mips.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 3/6] Uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore)
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:12:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPhsuW4KT=6vR_0ogTy_+Fwcz7cZ0Rac8sYohLngQmEBCd0HLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180813131723.GC28360@redhat.com>

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 6:17 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/13, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>>
>> > But damn, process creation (exec) is trivial. We could add a new uprobe_exec()
>> > hook and avoid delayed_uprobe_install() in uprobe_mmap().
>>
>> I'm sorry. I didn't get this.
>
> Sorry for confusion...
>
> I meant, if only exec*( could race with _register(), we could add another uprobe
> hook which updates all (delayed) counters before return to user-mode.
>
>> > Afaics, the really problematic case is dlopen() which can race with _register()
>> > too, right?
>>
>> dlopen() should internally use mmap() right? So what is the problem here? Can
>> you please elaborate.
>
> What I tried to say is that we can't avoid uprobe_mmap()->delayed_uprobe_install()
> because dlopen() can race with _register() too, just like exec.
>
> Oleg.
>

How about we do delayed_uprobe_install() per file? Say we keep a list
of delayed_uprobe
in load_elf_binary(). Then we can install delayed_uprobe after loading
all sections of the
file.

Song

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-08-13 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-09  4:18 [PATCH v8 0/6] Uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore) Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-09  4:18 ` [PATCH v8 1/6] Uprobes: Simplify uprobe_register() body Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-11  8:00   ` Song Liu
2018-08-13  8:56   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-08-14  0:07     ` Steven Rostedt
2018-08-09  4:18 ` [PATCH v8 2/6] Uprobe: Additional argument arch_uprobe to uprobe_write_opcode() Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-11  8:01   ` Song Liu
2018-08-13  8:51   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-08-09  4:18 ` [PATCH v8 3/6] Uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore) Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-09 14:38   ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-08-10 19:58     ` Steven Rostedt
2018-08-11  6:14       ` Song Liu
2018-08-14  0:01         ` Steven Rostedt
2018-08-14  0:05           ` Steven Rostedt
2018-08-11  7:57   ` Song Liu
2018-08-11 15:37     ` Steven Rostedt
2018-08-13  5:47     ` Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-13  7:38       ` Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-13 11:50       ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-08-13 13:01         ` Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-13 13:17           ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-08-13 14:26             ` Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-13 14:51             ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-08-13 17:12             ` Song Liu [this message]
2018-08-14  4:37               ` Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-14 16:35                 ` Song Liu
2018-08-14  0:03         ` Steven Rostedt
2018-08-13 16:50       ` Song Liu
2018-08-13 10:03   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-08-13 11:23     ` Oleg Nesterov
2018-08-14  8:56   ` Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-09  4:18 ` [PATCH v8 4/6] Uprobes/sdt: Prevent multiple reference counter for same uprobe Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-11  8:04   ` Song Liu
2018-08-13  8:50   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-08-09  4:18 ` [PATCH v8 5/6] trace_uprobe/sdt: " Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-11  8:12   ` Song Liu
2018-08-13  8:19     ` Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-13  8:49       ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-08-13 16:27         ` Song Liu
2018-08-13  8:48   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2018-08-09  4:18 ` [PATCH v8 6/6] perf probe: Support SDT markers having reference counter (semaphore) Ravi Bangoria
2018-08-13 16:55 ` [PATCH v8 0/6] Uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore) Oleg Nesterov

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