Re: [RFC PATCH v2 2/3] tracefs: add instances support for uprobe events

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Thu Aug 04 2016 - 10:11:38 EST


On Thu, 4 Aug 2016 19:16:03 +0530
Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Separation is based on the context in which the function is called.
> Hence, containers can see only those kernel functions that are
> triggered/invoked by the processes running inside that container and
> should not see other kernel functions, for example, called by RCU grace
> period kthread or any other kthread.
>

What about interrupts and softirqs? They run under the container
process's context, but service other processes outside the container.
Same goes for trace events.

-- Steve