On Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:16:28 -0700 "Alexei Starovoitov" <[email protected]> wrote:
> You added a whole bunch of hardcoded "monitors". None of them were > necessary. The whole RV is imo a waste of kernel code. > All of that could have been done via existing bpf tracing functionality. > One can delete kernel/trace/rv and do the same thing with bpf. > So I'm strongly against bolting bpf to RV as yet another "monitor". > It's a wrong design. Keep adding hard coded monitors and don't mess > with bpf. In the beginning, Daniel Bristot looked into doing this with BPF and found issues with it. I do not recall what they were and unfortunately Daniel is no longer around to explain it. Maybe Gabriele knows what they were. > > > Gabriele will be presenting this work at Linux Plumbers[1]. This will > > I didn't vote for it. Other bpf maintainers did. Hence it's in schedule. > But my stance is still a nack. So be it, it will likely be a lively discussion ;-) -- Steve
