linux/include/uapi
Alexei Starovoitov 98b5c2c65c 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>
2016-04-07 21:04:26 -04:00
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asm-generic Merge branch 'mm-pkeys-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2016-03-20 19:08:56 -07:00
drm Merge tag 'topic/drm-misc-2016-03-14' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel into drm-next 2016-03-16 11:09:26 +10:00
linux perf, bpf: allow bpf programs attach to tracepoints 2016-04-07 21:04:26 -04:00
misc cxl: Support to flash a new image on the adapter from a guest 2016-03-09 23:39:56 +11:00
mtd mtd: mtd-user: remove stdint.h include 2015-10-19 18:19:06 -07:00
rdma Merge branches 'i40iw', 'sriov' and 'hfi1' into k.o/for-4.6 2016-03-21 17:32:23 -04:00
scsi cxlflash: Fix to avoid virtual LUN failover failure 2016-01-06 20:50:08 -05:00
sound ALSA: seq: Provide card number / PID via sequencer client info 2016-03-08 10:52:52 +01:00
video
xen xen/gntdev: add ioctl for grant copy 2016-01-07 13:21:53 +00:00
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