On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 11:30:03AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> On 2024-06-06 11:05, Alice Ryhl wrote:
> > Make it possible to have Rust code call into tracepoints defined by C
> > code. It is still required that the tracepoint is declared in a C
> > header, and that this header is included in the input to bindgen.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <alicer...@google.com>
>
> [...]
>
> > diff --git a/rust/helpers.c b/rust/helpers.c
> > index 2c37a0f5d7a8..0560cc2a512a 100644
> > --- a/rust/helpers.c
> > +++ b/rust/helpers.c
> > @@ -165,6 +165,30 @@ rust_helper_krealloc(const void *objp, size_t
> > new_size, gfp_t flags)
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_krealloc);
> > +void rust_helper_preempt_enable_notrace(void)
> > +{
> > + preempt_enable_notrace();
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_preempt_enable_notrace);
> > +
> > +void rust_helper_preempt_disable_notrace(void)
> > +{
> > + preempt_disable_notrace();
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_preempt_disable_notrace);
> > +
> > +bool rust_helper_current_cpu_online(void)
> > +{
> > + return cpu_online(raw_smp_processor_id());
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper_current_cpu_online);
> > +
> > +void *rust_helper___rcu_dereference_raw(void **p)
> > +{
> > + return rcu_dereference_raw(p);
> > +}
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rust_helper___rcu_dereference_raw);
>
> Ouch. Doing a function call for each of those small operations will
> have a rather large performance impact when tracing is active. If it is
Long-term plan is to 1) compile the C helpers in some IR and 2) inline
the helpers with Rust in IR-level, as what Gary has:
https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20240529202817.3641974-1-g...@garyguo.net/
and I use it for the upcoming atomic API support:
https://github.com/fbq/linux/tree/dev/rust/atomic-rfc
and it works very well.
Regards,
Boqun
> not possible to inline those in Rust, then implementing __DO_TRACE in
> a C function would at least allow Rust to only do a single call to C
> rather than go back and forth between Rust and C.
>
> What prevents inlining those helpers in Rust ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mathieu
>
> --
> Mathieu Desnoyers
> EfficiOS Inc.
> https://www.efficios.com
>
