linux/kernel/events
Srikar Dronamraju 682968e0c4 uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter
Maintain a per-mm counter: number of uprobes that are inserted
on this process address space.

This counter can be used at probe hit time to determine if we
need a lookup in the uprobes rbtree. Everytime a probe gets
inserted successfully, the probe count is incremented and
everytime a probe gets removed, the probe count is decremented.

The new uprobe_munmap hook ensures the count is correct on a
unmap or remap of a region. We expect that once a
uprobe_munmap() is called, the vma goes away.  So
uprobe_unregister() finding a probe to unregister would either
mean unmap event hasnt occurred yet or a mmap event on the same
executable file occured after a unmap event.

Additionally, uprobe_mmap hook now also gets called:

 a. on every executable vma that is COWed at fork.
 b. a vma of interest is newly mapped; breakpoint insertion also
    happens at the required address.

On process creation, make sure the probes count in the child is
set correctly.

Special cases that are taken care include:

 a. mremap
 b. VM_DONTCOPY vmas on fork()
 c. insertion/removal races in the parent during fork().

Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120330182646.10018.85805.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-03-31 11:50:02 +02:00
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callchain.c perf: Don't call release_callchain_buffers() if allocation fails 2012-01-21 09:33:41 +01:00
core.c Merge branch 'x86/cleanups' into perf/uprobes 2012-03-13 16:33:03 +01:00
hw_breakpoint.c Merge branch 'x86/cleanups' into perf/uprobes 2012-03-13 16:33:03 +01:00
internal.h Merge branch 'perf/urgent' into perf/core 2011-12-06 06:43:49 +01:00
Makefile uprobes: Move to kernel/events/ 2012-02-22 11:08:00 +01:00
ring_buffer.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2012-01-08 13:21:22 -08:00
uprobes.c uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter 2012-03-31 11:50:02 +02:00