在 2024/8/2 0:49, Andrii Nakryiko 写道:
> On Thu, Aug 1, 2024 at 5:23 AM Liao, Chang <liaocha...@huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>>
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>> 在 2024/8/1 5:42, Andrii Nakryiko 写道:
>>> To avoid unnecessarily taking a (brief) refcount on uprobe during
>>> breakpoint handling in handle_swbp for entry uprobes, make find_uprobe()
>>> not take refcount, but protect the lifetime of a uprobe instance with
>>> RCU. This improves scalability, as refcount gets quite expensive due to
>>> cache line bouncing between multiple CPUs.
>>>
>>> Specifically, we utilize our own uprobe-specific SRCU instance for this
>>> RCU protection. put_uprobe() will delay actual kfree() using call_srcu().
>>>
>>> For now, uretprobe and single-stepping handling will still acquire
>>> refcount as necessary. We'll address these issues in follow up patches
>>> by making them use SRCU with timeout.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <and...@kernel.org>
>>> ---
>>> kernel/events/uprobes.c | 93 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
>>> 1 file changed, 55 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-)
>>>
>
> [...]
>
>>>
>>> @@ -2258,12 +2275,12 @@ static void handle_swbp(struct pt_regs *regs)
>>> if (arch_uprobe_skip_sstep(&uprobe->arch, regs))
>>> goto out;
>>>
>>> - if (!pre_ssout(uprobe, regs, bp_vaddr))
>>> - return;
>>> + if (pre_ssout(uprobe, regs, bp_vaddr))
>>> + goto out;
>>>
>>
>> Regardless what pre_ssout() returns, it always reach the label 'out', so the
>> if block is unnecessary.
>
> yep, I know, but I felt like
>
> if (something is wrong)
> goto out;
>
> pattern was important to keep for each possible failing step for consistency.
>
> so unless this is a big deal, I'd keep it as is, as in the future
> there might be some other steps after pre_ssout() before returning, so
> this is a bit more "composable"
>
OK, I would say this conditional-check pattern is likely to be optimized away by
modern compiler.
Thanks.
>
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>>
>>> - /* arch_uprobe_skip_sstep() succeeded, or restart if can't singlestep
>>> */
>>> out:
>>> - put_uprobe(uprobe);
>>> + /* arch_uprobe_skip_sstep() succeeded, or restart if can't singlestep
>>> */
>>> + srcu_read_unlock(&uprobes_srcu, srcu_idx);
>>> }
>>>
>>> /*
>>
>> --
>> BR
>> Liao, Chang
--
BR
Liao, Chang
