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eddyz87 and others added 7 commits February 12, 2026 17:26
While working on pointer tracking changes I found it necessary to
update expected log messages in align.c series of tests.
As a preliminary step, migrate these tests to test_loader framework.

The tests in question load BPF program and check if expected log is
produced, the log is specified as:

	.matches = {
		...
		{4, "R3", "32"},
		...
	}

Where:
- '4' is an *instruction number* (contrary to the field name in
  struct bpf_reg_match).
- 'R3' is the name of the register to check.
- '32' is the value expected for this register.

Mimic the same logic using __msg macro.

Signed-off-by: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260211051310.2782558-1-eddyz87@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Adding uprobe syscall feature detection that will be used
in following changes.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Adding support to detect nop,nop5 instructions combo for usdt probe
by checking on probe's following nop5 instruction.

When the nop,nop5 combo is detected together with uprobe syscall,
we can place the probe on top of nop5 and get it optimized.

[1] https://github.com/libbpf/usdt
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Syncing latest usdt.h change [1].

Now that we have nop5 optimization support in kernel, let's emit
nop,nop5 for usdt probe. We leave it up to the library to use
desirable nop instruction.

[1] libbpf/usdt@c9865d1
Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Adding test that attaches bpf program on usdt probe in 2 scenarios;

- attach program on top of usdt_1, which is single nop instruction,
  so the probe stays on nop instruction and is not optimized.

- attach program on top of usdt_2 which is probe defined on top
  of nop,nop5 combo, so the probe is placed on top of nop5 and
  is optimized.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Adding usdt trigger bench for usdt:
 trig-usdt-nop  - usdt on top of nop1 instruction
 trig-usdt-nop5 - usdt on top of nop1/nop5 combo

Adding it to benchs/run_bench_uprobes.sh script.

Example run on x86_64 kernel with uprobe syscall:

  # ./benchs/run_bench_uprobes.sh
  usermode-count :  152.507 ± 0.098M/s
  syscall-count  :   14.309 ± 0.093M/s
  uprobe-nop     :    3.190 ± 0.012M/s
  uprobe-push    :    3.057 ± 0.004M/s
  uprobe-ret     :    1.095 ± 0.009M/s
  uprobe-nop5    :    7.305 ± 0.034M/s
  uretprobe-nop  :    2.175 ± 0.005M/s
  uretprobe-push :    2.109 ± 0.003M/s
  uretprobe-ret  :    0.945 ± 0.002M/s
  uretprobe-nop5 :    3.530 ± 0.006M/s
  usdt-nop       :    3.235 ± 0.008M/s   <-- added
  usdt-nop5      :    7.511 ± 0.045M/s   <-- added

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
@kernel-patches-daemon-bpf kernel-patches-daemon-bpf bot force-pushed the bpf-next_base branch 2 times, most recently from a4a9811 to 2650068 Compare February 13, 2026 22:49
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