Re: [PATCH net-next] udp: Add tracepoint for udp_sendmsg()

[Paolo Abeni]

On 4/17/25 1:34 PM, Breno Leitao wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 08:57:24AM +0200, Paolo Abeni wrote:
>> On 4/16/25 9:23 PM, Breno Leitao wrote:
>>> Add a lightweight tracepoint to monitor UDP send message operations,
>>> similar to the recently introduced tcp_sendmsg_locked() trace event in
>>> commit 0f08335ade712 ("trace: tcp: Add tracepoint for
>>> tcp_sendmsg_locked()")
>>
>> Why is it needed? what would add on top of a plain perf probe, which
>> will be always available for such function with such argument, as the
>> function can't be inlined?
> 
> Why this function can't be inlined? 

Because the kernel need to be able find a pointer to it:

	.sendmsg		= udp_sendmsg,

I'll be really curious to learn how the compiler could inline that.

/P