Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] bpf: control a set of perf events by creating a new ioctl PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_ENABLER

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Wed Oct 14 2015 - 17:29:07 EST


On 10/14/15 5:37 AM, Kaixu Xia wrote:
+ event->p_sample_disable = &enabler_event->sample_disable;

I don't like it as a concept and it's buggy implementation.
What happens here when enabler is alive, but other event is destroyed?

--- a/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
@@ -221,9 +221,12 @@ static u64 bpf_perf_event_sample_control(u64 r1, u64 index, u64 flag, u64 r4, u6
struct bpf_array *array = container_of(map, struct bpf_array, map);
struct perf_event *event;

- if (unlikely(index >= array->map.max_entries))
+ if (unlikely(index > array->map.max_entries))
return -E2BIG;

+ if (index == array->map.max_entries)
+ index = 0;

what is this hack for ?

Either use notification and user space disable or
call bpf_perf_event_sample_control() manually for each cpu.


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