Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] tracing: Have eprobes have their own config option

[Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:18:17 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@kernel.org> wrote:

> From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> 
> Eprobes were added in 5.15 and were selected whenever any of the other
> probe events were selected. If kprobe events were enabled (which it is by
> default if kprobes are enabled) it would enable eprobe events as well. The
> same for uprobes and fprobes.
> 
> Have eprobes have its own config and it gets enabled by default if tracing
> is enabled.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250729102636.b7cce553e7cc263722b12365@kernel.org/
> 

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>

BTW, is it a bugfix or improvement?

Thanks,

> Suggested-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> ---
>  kernel/trace/Kconfig  | 13 +++++++++++++
>  kernel/trace/Makefile |  2 +-
>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/Kconfig b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> index 93e8e7fc11c0..b951c027fffb 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> +++ b/kernel/trace/Kconfig
> @@ -792,6 +792,19 @@ config UPROBE_EVENTS
>  	  This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe subcommand
>  	  of perf tools on user space applications.
>  
> +config EPROBE_EVENTS
> +	bool "Enable event-based dynamic events"
> +	depends on TRACING
> +	select PROBE_EVENTS
> +	select DYNAMIC_EVENTS
> +	default y
> +	help
> +	  Eprobes are dynamic events that can be placed on other existing
> +	  events. It can be used to limit what fields are recorded in
> +	  an event or even dereference a field of an event. It can
> +	  convert the type of an event field. For example, turn an
> +	  address into a string.
> +
>  config BPF_EVENTS
>  	depends on BPF_SYSCALL
>  	depends on (KPROBE_EVENTS || UPROBE_EVENTS) && PERF_EVENTS
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/Makefile b/kernel/trace/Makefile
> index 057cd975d014..dcb4e02afc5f 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/Makefile
> +++ b/kernel/trace/Makefile
> @@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += trace_event_perf.o
>  endif
>  obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += trace_events_filter.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += trace_events_trigger.o
> -obj-$(CONFIG_PROBE_EVENTS) += trace_eprobe.o
> +obj-$(CONFIG_EPROBE_EVENTS) += trace_eprobe.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_TRACE_EVENT_INJECT) += trace_events_inject.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_SYNTH_EVENTS) += trace_events_synth.o
>  obj-$(CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS) += trace_events_hist.o
> -- 
> 2.47.2
> 
> 


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Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>