This patch creates a 'struct perf_evsel' for every probe in a BPF object
file(s) and fills 'struct evlist' with them. The previously introduced
dummy event is now removed. After this patch, the following command:
# perf record --event filter.o ls
Can trace on each of the probes defined in filter.o.
The core of this patch is bpf__foreach_tev(), which calls a callback
function for each 'struct probe_trace_event' event for a bpf program
with each associated file descriptors. The add_bpf_event() callback
creates evsels by calling parse_events_add_tracepoint().
Since bpf-loader.c will not be built if libbpf is turned off, an empty
bpf__foreach_tev() is defined in bpf-loader.h to avoid build errors.
Committer notes:
Before:
# /tmp/oldperf record --event /tmp/foo.o -a usleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.198 MB perf.data ]
# perf evlist
/tmp/foo.o
# perf evlist -v
/tmp/foo.o: type: 1, size: 112, config: 0x9, { sample_period,
sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD, disabled: 1,
inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1,
exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1
I.e. we create just the PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE (type: 1),
PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY(config 0x9) event, now, with this patch:
# perf record --event /tmp/foo.o -a usleep 1
[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.210 MB perf.data ]
# perf evlist -v
perf_bpf_probe:fork: type: 2, size: 112, config: 0x6bd, { sample_period,
sample_freq }: 1, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|CPU|PERIOD|RAW, disabled: 1,
inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest:
1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1
#
We now have a PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE (type: 1), but the config states 0x6bd,
which is how, after setting up the event via the kprobes interface, the
'perf_bpf_probe:fork' event is accessible via the perf_event_open
syscall. This is all transient, as soon as the 'perf record' session
ends, these probes will go away.
To see how it looks like, lets try doing a neverending session, one that
expects a control+C to end:
# perf record --event /tmp/foo.o -a
So, with that in place, we can use 'perf probe' to see what is in place:
# perf probe -l
perf_bpf_probe:fork (on _do_fork@acme/git/linux/kernel/fork.c)
We also can use debugfs:
[root@felicio ~]# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/kprobe_events
p:perf_bpf_probe/fork _text+638512
Ok, now lets stop and see if we got some forks:
[root@felicio linux]# perf record --event /tmp/foo.o -a
^C[ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
[ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.325 MB perf.data (111 samples) ]
[root@felicio linux]# perf script
sshd 1271 [003] 81797.507678: perf_bpf_probe:fork: (ffffffff8109be30)
sshd 18309 [000] 81797.524917: perf_bpf_probe:fork: (ffffffff8109be30)
sshd 18309 [001] 81799.381603: perf_bpf_probe:fork: (ffffffff8109be30)
sshd 18309 [001] 81799.408635: perf_bpf_probe:fork: (ffffffff8109be30)
<SNIP>
Sure enough, we have 111 forks :-)
Callchains seems to work as well:
# perf report --stdio --no-child
# To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
#
# Total Lost Samples: 0
#
# Samples: 562 of event 'perf_bpf_probe:fork'
# Event count (approx.): 562
#
# Overhead Command Shared Object Symbol
# ........ ........ ................ ............
#
44.66% sh [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _do_fork
|
---_do_fork
entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath
__libc_fork
make_child
26.16% make [kernel.vmlinux] [k] _do_fork
<SNIP>
#
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444826502-49291-7-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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