From 98b5c2c65c2951772a8fc661f50d675e450e8bce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexei Starovoitov Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 18:43:25 -0700 Subject: 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 Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/bpf.h') 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 -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522