linux-toradex.git/tools/perf/util/bpf-event.h, branch v7.1

perf record: collect BPF metadata from new programs

2025-06-20T21:48:49+00:00

This collects metadata for any BPF programs that were loaded during a
"perf record" run, and emits it at the end of the run.

Signed-off-by: Blake Jones 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612194939.162730-4-blakejones@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf record: collect BPF metadata from existing BPF programs

2025-06-20T21:48:35+00:00

Look for .rodata maps, find ones with 'bpf_metadata_' variables, extract
their values as strings, and create a new PERF_RECORD_BPF_METADATA
synthetic event using that data. The code gets invoked from the existing
routine perf_event__synthesize_one_bpf_prog().

For example, a BPF program with the following variables:

    const char bpf_metadata_version[] SEC(".rodata") = "3.14159";
    int bpf_metadata_value[] SEC(".rodata") = 42;

would generate a PERF_RECORD_BPF_METADATA record with:

    .prog_name        = 
    .nr_entries       = 2
    .entries[0].key   = "version"
    .entries[0].value = "3.14159"
    .entries[1].key   = "value"
    .entries[1].value = "42"

Each of the BPF programs and subprograms that share those variables would
get a distinct PERF_RECORD_BPF_METADATA record, with the ".prog_name"
showing the name of each program or subprogram. The prog_name is
deliberately the same as the ".name" field in the corresponding
PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL record.

This code only gets invoked if support for displaying BTF char arrays
as strings is detected.

Signed-off-by: Blake Jones 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250612194939.162730-3-blakejones@google.com
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim

perf env: Avoid recursively taking env->bpf_progs.lock

2024-01-03T20:54:54+00:00

Add variants of perf_env__insert_bpf_prog_info(), perf_env__insert_btf()
and perf_env__find_btf prefixed with __ to indicate the
env->bpf_progs.lock is assumed held.

Call these variants when the lock is held to avoid recursively taking it
and potentially having a thread deadlock with itself.

Fixes: f8dfeae009effc0b ("perf bpf: Show more BPF program info in print_bpf_prog_info()")
Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Acked-by: Song Liu 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Huacai Chen 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: K Prateek Nayak 
Cc: Kan Liang 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Ming Wang 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ravi Bangoria 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231207014655.1252484-1-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bpf: Remove unused pthread.h include

2022-10-04T11:55:19+00:00

No pthread usage in bpf-event.h.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers 
Reviewed-by: Adrian Hunter 
Acked-by: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexandre Truong 
Cc: Alexey Bayduraev 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Andres Freund 
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko 
Cc: André Almeida 
Cc: Athira Jajeev 
Cc: Christophe JAILLET 
Cc: Colin Ian King 
Cc: Dario Petrillo 
Cc: Darren Hart 
Cc: Dave Marchevsky 
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso 
Cc: Fangrui Song 
Cc: Hewenliang 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: James Clark 
Cc: Jason Wang 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Kajol Jain 
Cc: Kim Phillips 
Cc: Leo Yan 
Cc: Mark Rutland 
Cc: Martin Liška 
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu 
Cc: Nathan Chancellor 
Cc: Nick Desaulniers 
Cc: Pavithra Gurushankar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Quentin Monnet 
Cc: Ravi Bangoria 
Cc: Remi Bernon 
Cc: Riccardo Mancini 
Cc: Song Liu 
Cc: Stephane Eranian 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: Thomas Richter 
Cc: Tom Rix 
Cc: Weiguo Li 
Cc: Wenyu Liu 
Cc: William Cohen 
Cc: Zechuan Chen 
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Cc: llvm@lists.linux.dev
Cc: yaowenbin 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220826164242.43412-6-irogers@google.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bpf: Pull in bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear()

2021-11-01T21:16:40+00:00

To prepare for impending deprecation of libbpf's bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear(),
pull in the function and associated helpers into the perf codebase and migrate
existing uses to the perf copy.

Since libbpf's deprecated definitions will still be visible to perf, it is necessary
to rename perf's definitions.

Signed-off-by: Dave Marchevsky 
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko 
Acked-by: Song Liu 
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov 
Cc: Daniel Borkmann 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211011082031.4148337-4-davemarchevsky@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf bpf: Decouple creating the evlist from adding the SB event

2020-05-05T19:35:29+00:00

Renaming bpf_event__add_sb_event() to evlist__add_sb_event() and
requiring that the evlist be allocated beforehand.

This will allow using the same side band thread and evlist to be used
for multiple purposes in addition to react to PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT soon
after they are generated.

Acked-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Song Liu 
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200429131106.27974-4-acme@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tools: Move event synthesizing routines to separate header

2019-09-20T12:19:22+00:00

Those are the only routines using the perf_event__handler_t typedef and
are all related, so move to a separate header to reduce the header
dependency tree, lots of places were getting event.h and even stdio.h,
limits.h indirectly, so fix those as well.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-yvx9u1mf7baq6cu1abfhbqgs@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf event: Remove needless include directives from event.h

2019-09-01T01:19:24+00:00

bpf.h and build-id.h are not needed at all in event.h, remove them.

And fixup the fallout of files that were getting needed stuff from this
now pruned include.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-rdm3dgtlrndmmnlc4bafsg3b@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf tool: Rename perf_tool::bpf_event to bpf

2019-08-26T22:39:11+00:00

No need for that _event suffix, do just like all the other meta event
handlers and suppress that suffix.

Cc: Adrian Hunter 
Cc: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Song Liu 
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-03spzxtqafbabbbmnm7y4xfx@git.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo

perf evlist: Rename struct perf_evlist to struct evlist

2019-07-29T21:34:42+00:00

Rename struct perf_evlist to struct evlist, so we don't have a name
clash when we add struct perf_evlist in libperf.

Committer notes:

Added fixes to build on arm64, from Jiri and from me
(tools/perf/util/cs-etm.c)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa 
Cc: Alexander Shishkin 
Cc: Alexey Budankov 
Cc: Andi Kleen 
Cc: Michael Petlan 
Cc: Namhyung Kim 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190721112506.12306-6-jolsa@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo