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authorAlexei Starovoitov2016-04-06 18:43:25 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller2016-04-07 21:04:26 -0400
commit98b5c2c65c2951772a8fc661f50d675e450e8bce (patch)
treea72f04b6056a18b50d6244e8f4b6f41e95f9e0c5 /include/uapi
parent1e1dcd93b468901e114f279c94a0b356adc5e7cd (diff)
perf, bpf: allow bpf programs attach to tracepoints
introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACEPOINT program type and allow it to be attached to the perf tracepoint handler, which will copy the arguments into the per-cpu buffer and pass it to the bpf program as its first argument. The layout of the fields can be discovered by doing 'cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/sched_switch/format' prior to the compilation of the program with exception that first 8 bytes are reserved and not accessible to the program. This area is used to store the pointer to 'struct pt_regs' which some of the bpf helpers will use: +---------+ | 8 bytes | hidden 'struct pt_regs *' (inaccessible to bpf program) +---------+ | N bytes | static tracepoint fields defined in tracepoint/format (bpf readonly) +---------+ | dynamic | __dynamic_array bytes of tracepoint (inaccessible to bpf yet) +---------+ Not that all of the fields are already dumped to user space via perf ring buffer and broken application access it directly without consulting tracepoint/format. Same rule applies here: static tracepoint fields should only be accessed in a format defined in tracepoint/format. The order of fields and field sizes are not an ABI. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/bpf.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 23917bb47bf3..70eda5aeb304 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ enum bpf_prog_type {
BPF_PROG_TYPE_KPROBE,
BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS,
BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_ACT,
+ BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACEPOINT,
};
#define BPF_PSEUDO_MAP_FD 1