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To avoid unnecessarily taking a (brief) refcount on uprobe during breakpoint handling in handle_swbp for entry uprobes, make find_uprobe() not take refcount, but protect the lifetime of a uprobe instance with RCU. This improves scalability, as refcount gets quite expensive due to cache line bouncing between multiple CPUs. Specifically, we utilize our own uprobe-specific SRCU instance for this RCU protection. put_uprobe() will delay actual kfree() using call_srcu(). For now, uretprobe and single-stepping handling will still acquire refcount as necessary. We'll address these issues in follow up patches by making them use SRCU with timeout. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240903174603.3554182-3-andrii@kernel.org
Linux kernel
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.