Default value of maxactive is set as num_possible_cpus() for nonpreemptable
systems. For a 2-core system, only 2 kretprobe instances would be allocated
in default, then these 2 instances for execve kretprobe are very likely to
be used up with a pipelined command.
Here's the testcase: a shell script was added to crontab, and the content
of the script is:
#!/bin/sh
do_something_magic `tr -dc a-z < /dev/urandom | head -c 10`
cron will trigger a series of program executions (4 times every hour). Then
events loss would be noticed normally after 3-4 hours of testings.
The issue is caused by a burst of series of execve requests. The best number
of kretprobe instances could be different case by case, and should be user's
duty to determine, but num_possible_cpus() as the default value is inadequate
especially for systems with small number of cpus.
This patch enables the logic for preemption as default, thus increases the
minimum of maxactive to 10 for nonpreemptable systems.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221110081502.492289-1-wuqiang.matt@bytedance.com/
Signed-off-by: wuqiang <wuqiang.matt@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
After commit 22471e1313 ("kconfig: use a menu in arch/Kconfig to reduce
clutter"), the location of Kprobes is under "General architecture-dependent
options" rather than "General setup".
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fixes: 22471e1313 ("kconfig: use a menu in arch/Kconfig to reduce clutter")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1663322106-12178-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The reason for kprobe::fault_handler(), as given by their comment:
* We come here because instructions in the pre/post
* handler caused the page_fault, this could happen
* if handler tries to access user space by
* copy_from_user(), get_user() etc. Let the
* user-specified handler try to fix it first.
Is just plain bad. Those other handlers are ran from non-preemptible
context and had better use _nofault() functions. Also, there is no
upstream usage of this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210525073213.561116662@infradead.org
