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From: "Robert O'Callahan" <roc@pernos.co>
To: Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	 Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,  Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,  Kyle Huey <khuey@pernos.co>
Subject: Re: Userspace notifications for observing userfaultfd faults
Date: Wed, 12 May 2021 10:15:21 +1200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOp6jLaSLC4O0ZayFz1BiO6UqC7pK_umFUb29bgXDu6U5dUQgg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJHvVci_q5rxuo-N+EH_CNxX_M3oxWcLyitvbdySa_PMH3e_Dg@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 6:12 AM Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> wrote:
> Is some combination of bpf and kprobes a possible solution? There are
> some seemingly relevant examples here:
> https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/blob/master/docs/tutorial_one_liners.md
>
> I haven't tried it, but it seems like attaching to handle_userfault()
> would give similar information to perf_count_sw_page_faults, but for
> userfaults.

That would probably work in some cases, but as Kyle said that requires
privileges and currently rr can run unprivileged (if you set
perf_event_paranoid to 1 or less) and usually does. Also, AFAIK,
kprobing handle_userfault would not be a stable ABI.

Rob


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-05-11 22:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-11  0:37 Robert O'Callahan
2021-05-11 18:11 ` Axel Rasmussen
2021-05-11 18:25   ` Kyle Huey
2021-05-11 22:15   ` Robert O'Callahan [this message]
2021-05-11 22:24     ` Axel Rasmussen

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