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From:   "Robert O'Callahan" <roc@pernos.co>
Date:   Wed, 12 May 2021 10:15:21 +1200
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Subject: Re: Userspace notifications for observing userfaultfd faults
To:     Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com>
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        Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
        Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>, Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>,
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On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 6:12 AM Axel Rasmussen <axelrasmussen@google.com> wrote:
> Is some combination of bpf and kprobes a possible solution? There are
> some seemingly relevant examples here:
> https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/blob/master/docs/tutorial_one_liners.md
>
> I haven't tried it, but it seems like attaching to handle_userfault()
> would give similar information to perf_count_sw_page_faults, but for
> userfaults.

That would probably work in some cases, but as Kyle said that requires
privileges and currently rr can run unprivileged (if you set
perf_event_paranoid to 1 or less) and usually does. Also, AFAIK,
kprobing handle_userfault would not be a stable ABI.

Rob