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From:   Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Date:   Thu, 24 Feb 2022 10:13:05 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2] bpf: Cache the last valid build_id.
To:     Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc:     Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>,
        Blake Jones <blakejones@google.com>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
        open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
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Hello,

On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 6:31 PM Song Liu <song@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2022 at 4:05 PM Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > For binaries that are statically linked, consecutive stack frames are
> > likely to be in the same VMA and therefore have the same build id.
> > As an optimization for this case, we can cache the previous frame's
> > VMA, if the new frame has the same VMA as the previous one, reuse the
> > previous one's build id. We are holding the MM locks as reader across
> > the entire loop, so we don't need to worry about VMA going away.
> >
> > Tested through "stacktrace_build_id" and "stacktrace_build_id_nmi" in
> > test_progs.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>

Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>

Thanks,
Namhyung