Re: [PATCH x86/urgent] bpf: emulate push insns for uprobe on x86

From: Yonghong Song
Date: Wed Nov 08 2017 - 19:11:12 EST




On 11/8/17 4:06 PM, David Miller wrote:
From: Yonghong Song <yhs@xxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 13:37:12 -0800

Uprobe is a tracing mechanism for userspace programs.
Typical uprobe will incur overhead of two traps.
First trap is caused by replaced trap insn, and
the second trap is to execute the original displaced
insn in user space.
...

I don't understand how this is bpf related, and if it is you don't
explain it well in the commit message.

Right. This is not related to bpf. Will remove the "bpf" from the subject line in the next revision.


Thank you.