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From:   KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2022 15:23:00 +0100
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Subject: Re: [RFC 0/1] BPF tracing for arm64 using fprobe
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 3:17 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 02:47:10PM +0100, KP Singh wrote:
>
> > > > How do I know that a function return was modified by BPF? If I'm debugging
> >
> > You can list the BPF programs that are loaded in the kernel with
> >
> > # bpftool prog list
>
> Only when you have access to the machine; most cases it's people sending
> random splats by email.

Good point, What about having information about loaded BPF programs in the
kernel stack traces and sharing bytecode, somehow, like in crash dumps?

>
> > Also, the BPF programs show up in call stacks when you are debugging.
>
> Only when it splats inside the BPF part, not when it splats after
> because BPF changed semantics of a function.
>
>