On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 12:21:48 -0500
Steven Rostedt <rost...@goodmis.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 19:51:00 +0300
> Alexander Popov <alex.po...@linux.com> wrote:
> 
> > By the way, are there any other tracing/instrumentation mechanisms that 
> > should
> > be disabled?
> 
> ftrace and kprobes are pretty much the only ones that currently do self
> modification of code all over the kernel. Kprobes even more so than
> ftrace.

Right, since kprobes uses int3 or sw breakpoint exception for hooking into
the code, it consumes stack much more.

Thank you,

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>

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