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Message-ID: <55B053FE.90808@huawei.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 10:39:58 +0800
From: xiakaixu <xiakaixu@...wei.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>
CC: <davem@...emloft.net>, <acme@...nel.org>, <mingo@...hat.com>,
<a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>, <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
<jolsa@...nel.org>, <wangnan0@...wei.com>,
<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <pi3orama@....com>,
<hekuang@...wei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] bpf: Implement function bpf_perf_event_read()
that get the selected hardware PMU conuter
δΊ 2015/7/23 10:22, Alexei Starovoitov ει:
> On 7/22/15 7:12 PM, xiakaixu wrote:
>> So you mean like this?
>>
>> u64 bpf_perf_event_read(u64 r1, u64 index,...)
>> {
>> struct bpf_perf_event_array *array = (void *) (long) r1;
>> struct perf_event *event;
>> ...
>> event = array->events[index];
>> ...
>> }
>
> yes. the only thing needed is to add:
> if (index >= array->map.max_entries)
> return -E2BIG;
> before accessing array->events[index];
>
>>> >
>>>> >>+const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_perf_event_read_proto = {
>>>> >>+ .func = bpf_perf_event_read,
>>>> >>+ .gpl_only = false,
>>>> >>+ .ret_type = RET_INTEGER,
>>>> >>+ .arg1_type = ARG_CONST_MAP_PTR,
>>>> >>+ .arg2_type = ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_KEY,
>>> >
>>> >make it arg2_type = ARG_ANYTHING then you'll just index
>>> >into array the way prog_array does and similar to bpf_tail_call.
>
>> ARG_ANYTHING means any (initialized) argument is ok, but we here
>
> correct.
>
>> really want is map key. So I'm not sure ARG_ANYTHING is suitable.
>> You know ARG_ANYTHING is not checked enough in verifier.
>
> why? during perf_event_array creation time we check that key_size == u32
> so we can accept any integer.
> ARG_PTR_TO_MAP_KEY forces program author to use stack instead of
> passing index directly. Direct index is obviously faster.
Copy that. We will follow them in V3.
>
>
> .
>
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