Re: [PATCH V4 03/13] kprobes: Add symbols for kprobe insn pages

From: Alexei Starovoitov
Date: Thu Mar 05 2020 - 01:10:25 EST


On Wed, Mar 4, 2020 at 10:01 PM Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > # perf probe __schedule
> > Added new event:
> > probe:__schedule (on __schedule)
> > # cat /proc/kallsyms | grep '\[__builtin__kprobes\]'
> > ffffffffc00d4000 t kprobe_insn_page [__builtin__kprobes]
> > ffffffffc00d6000 t kprobe_optinsn_page [__builtin__kprobes]
> >
> > Note: This patch adds "__builtin__kprobes" as a module name in
> > /proc/kallsyms for symbols for pages allocated for kprobes' purposes, even
> > though "__builtin__kprobes" is not a module.
>
> Looks good to me.
>
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> BTW, would you also make a patch to change [bpf] to [__builtin__bpf]?

Please do not.
There is nothing 'builtin' about bpf.