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author | Alexei Starovoitov | 2016-04-06 18:43:25 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller | 2016-04-07 21:04:26 -0400 |
commit | 98b5c2c65c2951772a8fc661f50d675e450e8bce (patch) | |
tree | a72f04b6056a18b50d6244e8f4b6f41e95f9e0c5 /include/uapi | |
parent | 1e1dcd93b468901e114f279c94a0b356adc5e7cd (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.h | 1 |
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 |