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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/2] s390 vs. kprobes on ftrace
On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 09:58:31PM +0200, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:
> Hello Heiko,
>
> I can confirm that kGraft works well on top of current mainline with
> this patch added.
>
> Another reason for a performance impact when kGraft is enabled is that
> kGraft still adds two instructions to the syscall path on s390x, as
> there is no space left for a kgraft TIF in the first eight bits of
> thread info flags. Renumbering the thread info flags such that _TIF_WORK
> occupies the first eight bits and TIF_TRACE the next eight would fix
> that problem: Do you believe it is feasible?

Hi Vojtech,

I think you're talking about the SLES12 kernel? There you can simply move
the TIF_SYSCALL bit to the same byte where your TIF_KGR bit resides.

Upstream is a bit different since the TIF_SYSCALL bit is already gone (got
replaced with an s390 specific "PIF" bit). However the free TIF bit got
already eaten up by uprobes..

However we can think of a better solution for upstream if the combined
solution of kGraft/kpatch is ready to be merged.



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