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From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH -tip ] x86/kprobes: kprobes call optimization
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 17:29:15 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FACCDDB.4080801@hitachi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120510115401.18125.93504.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

(2012/05/10 20:54), Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Note: this code is still under development, but it will
> be useful for the discussion to show this.
> 
> Use relative call instead of relative jump for optimizing
> kprobes. This reduces x86-depend magic code and runtime
> memory size.

Hmm, I've found that this patch may increase the execution
time of probing more than 20%. I think that is more than
acceptable...


-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com

  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-11  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-02 19:24 [PATCH 0/9][RFC] ftrace: ftrace location lookup speedup, and clean ups Steven Rostedt
2012-05-02 19:24 ` [PATCH 1/9][RFC] ftrace: Sort all function addresses, not just per page Steven Rostedt
2012-05-02 19:24 ` [PATCH 2/9][RFC] ftrace: Remove extra helper functions Steven Rostedt
2012-05-02 19:24 ` [PATCH 3/9][RFC] ftrace: Speed up search by skipping pages by address Steven Rostedt
2012-05-02 19:24 ` [PATCH 4/9][RFC] ftrace: Consolidate ftrace_location() and ftrace_text_reserved() Steven Rostedt
2012-05-02 19:24 ` [PATCH 5/9][RFC] ftrace: Return record ip addr for ftrace_location() Steven Rostedt
2012-05-02 19:24 ` [PATCH 6/9][RFC] kprobes: Allow probe on ftrace reserved text (but move it) Steven Rostedt
2012-05-02 20:40   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2012-05-02 23:40     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-07 11:37       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-05-07 11:59         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-05-07 12:44           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-07 12:51             ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-07 12:43         ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-08  3:08           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-05-08 13:04             ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-09  5:53               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-05-09  8:12                 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-05-09  9:02                   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-05-09 14:50                     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-05-10 11:54                     ` [RFC PATCH -tip ] x86/kprobes: kprobes call optimization Masami Hiramatsu
2012-05-11  8:29                       ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2012-05-02 19:24 ` [PATCH 7/9][RFC] ftrace: Make ftrace_modify_all_code() global for archs to use Steven Rostedt
2012-05-02 19:24 ` [PATCH 8/9][RFC] ftrace/x86: Have x86 ftrace use the ftrace_modify_all_code() Steven Rostedt
2012-05-02 19:24 ` [PATCH 9/9][RFC] ftrace: Remove selecting FRAME_POINTER with FUNCTION_TRACER Steven Rostedt

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