linux/tools
Ian Rogers 3d6dfae889 perf parse-events: Remove BPF event support
New features like the BPF --filter support in perf record have made the
BPF event functionality somewhat redundant. As shown by commit
fcb027c1a4f6 ("perf tools: Revert enable indices setting syntax for BPF
map") and commit 14e4b9f428 ("perf trace: Raw augmented syscalls fix
libbpf 1.0+ compatibility") the BPF event support hasn't been well
maintained and it adds considerable complexity in areas like event
parsing, not least as '/' is a separator for event modifiers as well as
in paths.

This patch removes support in the event parser for BPF events and then
the associated functions are removed. This leads to the removal of whole
source files like bpf-loader.c.  Removing support means that augmented
syscalls in perf trace is broken, this will be fixed in a later commit
adding support using BPF skeletons.

The removal of BPF events causes an unused label warning from flex
generated code, so update build to ignore it:

  ```
  util/parse-events-flex.c:2704:1: error: label ‘find_rule’ defined but not used [-Werror=unused-label]
  2704 | find_rule: /* we branch to this label when backing up */
  ```

Committer notes:

Extracted from a larger patch that was also removing the support for
linking with libllvm and libclang, that were an alternative to using an
external clang execution to compile the .c event source code into BPF
bytecode.

Testing it:

  # perf trace -e /home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c
  event syntax error: '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c'
                        \___ Bad event or PMU

  Unabled to find PMU or event on a PMU of 'home'

  Initial error:
  event syntax error: '/home/acme/git/perf/tools/perf/examples/bpf/augmented_raw_syscalls.c'
                        \___ Cannot find PMU `home'. Missing kernel support?
  Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

   Usage: perf trace [<options>] [<command>]
      or: perf trace [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]
      or: perf trace record [<options>] [<command>]
      or: perf trace record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]

      -e, --event <event>   event/syscall selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
  #

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Athira Rajeev <atrajeev@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Carsten Haitzler <carsten.haitzler@arm.com>
Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: James Clark <james.clark@arm.com>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>
Cc: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ravi Bangoria <ravi.bangoria@amd.com>
Cc: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Cc: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Cc: Wang ShaoBo <bobo.shaobowang@huawei.com>
Cc: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230810184853.2860737-2-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
2023-08-15 16:41:48 -03:00
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accounting
arch perf tools fixes for v6.5: 3rd batch 2023-08-09 21:06:14 -07:00
bootconfig
bpf tools/resolve_btfids: Fix setting HOSTCFLAGS 2023-06-05 15:44:47 -07:00
build perf bpf: Remove support for embedding clang for compiling BPF events (-e foo.c) 2023-08-15 16:41:48 -03:00
certs
cgroup
counter tools/counter: Makefile: Remove lingering 'include' directories on make clean 2023-05-09 19:17:17 -04:00
debugging
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio tools: gpio: fix debounce_period_us output of lsgpio 2023-05-11 10:56:24 +02:00
hv vmbus_testing: fix wrong python syntax for integer value comparison 2023-07-23 23:19:30 +00:00
iio
include tools include UAPI: Sync the sound/asound.h copy with the kernel sources 2023-07-14 10:33:50 -03:00
io_uring
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib libsubcmd: Avoid SEGV/use-after-free when commands aren't excluded 2023-07-11 16:44:12 -03:00
memory-model
mm
net/ynl tools: ynl-gen: fix parse multi-attr enum attribute 2023-07-26 13:38:23 -07:00
objtool x86/srso: Add a Speculative RAS Overflow mitigation 2023-07-27 11:07:14 +02:00
pci
pcmcia
perf perf parse-events: Remove BPF event support 2023-08-15 16:41:48 -03:00
power platform-drivers-x86 for v6.5-1 2023-06-30 14:50:00 -07:00
rcu
scripts tools build: Add 3-component logical version comparators 2023-08-03 16:59:40 -03:00
spi spi: spidev_test Add three missing spi mode bits 2023-05-30 15:20:12 +01:00
testing x86: 2023-08-07 10:18:20 -07:00
thermal
time
tracing rtla/timerlat_hist: Add timerlat user-space support 2023-06-13 16:41:14 -04:00
usb usbip: Use _FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 instead of (implicitly) =1 2023-05-29 15:11:30 +01:00
verification
virtio tools/virtio: fix build break for aarch64 2023-06-27 10:47:08 -04:00
wmi
workqueue workqueue: Track and monitor per-workqueue CPU time usage 2023-05-17 17:02:09 -10:00
Makefile