From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: "Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] proc: Disable /proc/$pid/wchan
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 10:48:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YVQodT191JGCCY/F@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210924135424.GA33573@C02TD0UTHF1T.local>
On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 02:54:24PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> We could instead have the scheduler entrypoints snapshot their caller
> into a field in task_struct. If there are sufficiently few callers, that
> could be an inline wrapper that passes a __func__ string. Otherwise, we
> still need to symbolize.
I strongly dislike that option, we'd make the scheduler slower for
something that's typically unused.
The 3 people actually using wchan should pay the cost of obtaining the
data, not everybody all the time.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-29 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-23 23:31 [PATCH] proc: Disable /proc/$pid/wchan Kees Cook
2021-09-23 23:38 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-24 13:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-23 23:49 ` Vito Caputo
2021-09-24 0:08 ` Jann Horn
2021-09-24 0:22 ` Vito Caputo
2021-09-24 1:16 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-24 1:34 ` Vito Caputo
2021-09-24 1:42 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-24 13:54 ` Mark Rutland
2021-09-24 14:26 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-27 9:03 ` Mark Rutland
2021-09-27 18:07 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-27 20:50 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-09-29 18:54 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-29 19:00 ` Mark Brown
2021-09-29 19:26 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-29 19:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-29 21:10 ` Josh Poimboeuf
2021-09-27 9:16 ` David Laight
2021-09-29 8:48 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2021-09-24 2:13 ` Andrew Morton
2021-09-24 6:04 ` Kees Cook
2021-09-24 13:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-30 18:05 ` Stephen Brennan
2021-09-30 18:12 ` Kees Cook
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