Re: Why do kprobes and uprobes singlestep?

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 1:02 PM Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Mar 2, 2021, at 12:24 PM, Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 10:38 AM Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> Is there something like a uprobe test suite?  How maintained /
> >> actively used is uprobe?
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> > uprobe+bpf is heavily used in production.
> > selftests/bpf has only one test for it though.
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> > Why are you asking?
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> Because the integration with the x86 entry code is a mess, and I want to know whether to mark it BROKEN or how to make sure the any cleanups actually work.

Any test case to repro the issue you found?
Is it a bug or just messy code?
Nowadays a good chunk of popular applications (python, mysql, etc) has
USDTs in them.
Issues reported with bcc:
https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/issues?q=is%3Aissue+USDT
Similar thing with bpftrace.
Both standard USDT and semaphore based are used in the wild.
uprobe for containers has been a long standing feature request.
If you can improve uprobe performance that would be awesome.
That's another thing that people report often. We optimized it a bit.
More can be done.