linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 04/10] perf, bpf: allow bpf programs attach to tracepoints

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Date:	Thu, 7 Apr 2016 22:58:47 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...radead.org>,
	Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>, Josef Bacik <jbacik@...com>,
	Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 04/10] perf, bpf: allow bpf programs attach
 to tracepoints

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 06:43:25PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> 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@...nel.org>

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@...radead.org>