From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1D2CECAAD3 for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2022 07:38:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230023AbiHaHiq (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2022 03:38:46 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39372 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230075AbiHaHic (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2022 03:38:32 -0400 Received: from desiato.infradead.org (desiato.infradead.org [IPv6:2001:8b0:10b:1:d65d:64ff:fe57:4e05]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 033A8C00C4; Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:38:30 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=infradead.org; s=desiato.20200630; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version: References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Sender:Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-ID:Content-Description; bh=gDCNZ3f2D6OuuyZZIQqudj53nBzwis7zfrQMn3P2Fjk=; b=EnH590ebi7kcvXSn/SPE4BBwaq G73slZS6OdWE165F5mFPdKSb4G0pxt8J7V34L/o3IbANPaAYlBu3oBhuHuj2MBAdvo1ME/K6Ccoac nqrGmxMchGvd4OTkxLT1PI9KtqB1CJcWBfQYSGjskXMfH7KHBf7y40d2hMIHXWS9EUHpb1kfShxxp basAhCG9FH6k5sKGLYwSJMF9NqHHx+E2ZRj1/L0eXUCAPLbsJA2NIreXnB7LNaS6wlfiaxLs3m8Yb oC9mOLy9h/8FQKMoTRveAS0JQyP4ULhWaceTADCP8huEjpocIjesjX+3GsJ4zvCVBEen8x7fa9Cw0 i9j+EJUw==; Received: from j130084.upc-j.chello.nl ([24.132.130.84] helo=noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net) by desiato.infradead.org with esmtpsa (Exim 4.94.2 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1oTIIt-0085rG-Sd; Wed, 31 Aug 2022 07:38:28 +0000 Received: from hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net (hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net [192.168.1.225]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8452E3002A3; Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:38:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: by hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 66CD32B843CC0; Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:38:27 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2022 09:38:27 +0200 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, kent.overstreet@linux.dev, mhocko@suse.com, vbabka@suse.cz, hannes@cmpxchg.org, roman.gushchin@linux.dev, mgorman@suse.de, dave@stgolabs.net, willy@infradead.org, liam.howlett@oracle.com, void@manifault.com, juri.lelli@redhat.com, ldufour@linux.ibm.com, peterx@redhat.com, david@redhat.com, axboe@kernel.dk, mcgrof@kernel.org, masahiroy@kernel.org, nathan@kernel.org, changbin.du@intel.com, ytcoode@gmail.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org, dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, bsegall@google.com, bristot@redhat.com, vschneid@redhat.com, cl@linux.com, penberg@kernel.org, iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, 42.hyeyoo@gmail.com, glider@google.com, elver@google.com, dvyukov@google.com, shakeelb@google.com, songmuchun@bytedance.com, arnd@arndb.de, jbaron@akamai.com, rientjes@google.com, minchan@google.com, kaleshsingh@google.com, kernel-team@android.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, iommu@lists.linux.dev, kasan-dev@googlegroups.com, io-uring@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org, linux-bcache@vger.kernel.org, linux-modules@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/30] Code tagging framework and applications Message-ID: References: <20220830214919.53220-1-surenb@google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220830214919.53220-1-surenb@google.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 02:48:49PM -0700, Suren Baghdasaryan wrote: > =========================== > Code tagging framework > =========================== > Code tag is a structure identifying a specific location in the source code > which is generated at compile time and can be embedded in an application- > specific structure. Several applications of code tagging are included in > this RFC, such as memory allocation tracking, dynamic fault injection, > latency tracking and improved error code reporting. > Basically, it takes the old trick of "define a special elf section for > objects of a given type so that we can iterate over them at runtime" and > creates a proper library for it. I might be super dense this morning, but what!? I've skimmed through the set and I don't think I get it. What does this provide that ftrace/kprobes don't already allow?