linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] bpf: fix bpf_perf_event

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Date:	Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:30:02 +0800
From:	"Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>
To:	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	He Kuang <hekuang@...wei.com>, Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@...wei.com>,
	"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@...earbox.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] bpf: fix bpf_perf_event_read() helper



On 2015/10/22 13:00, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On 10/21/15 9:49 PM, Wangnan (F) wrote:
>> After applying this patch I'm unable to use perf passing perf_event
>> again like this:
>
> please do not top post and trim your replies.
>
>>   # perf record -a -e evt=cycles -e
>> ./test_config_map.c/maps.pmu_map.event=evt/ --exclude-perf ls
>>
>> With -v it output:
>>
>> ...
>> adding perf_bpf_probe:func_write
>> adding perf_bpf_probe:func_write to 0x367d6a0
>> add bpf event perf_bpf_probe:func_write_return and attach bpf program 6
>> adding perf_bpf_probe:func_write_return
>> adding perf_bpf_probe:func_write_return to 0x3a7fc40
>> mmap size 528384B
>> ERROR: failed to insert value to pmu_map[0]
>> ERROR: Apply config to BPF failed: Invalid option for map, add -v to see
>> detail
>> Opening /sys/kernel/debug/tracing//kprobe_events write=
>> ...
>>
>> Looks like perf sets attr.inherit for cycles? I'll look into this 
>> problem.
>
> yes. that's perf default.
> How did it even work before?!
> I was testing with your samples/bpf/tracex6 that sets inherit to zero.
>

Tested perf record -i option and it works for me:

# echo "" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace
# perf record -i -a -e evt=cycles -e 
./test_config_map.c/maps.pmu_map.event=evt/ --exclude-perf ls
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace  | grep ls
               ls-8227  [001] dN..  2526.184611: : pmu inc: 82270
               ls-8227  [001] dN..  2526.184626: : pmu inc: 40951
               ls-8227  [001] dN..  2526.184642: : pmu inc: 50659
               ls-8227  [001] dN..  2526.184657: : pmu inc: 43511
               ls-8227  [001] dN..  2526.184675: : pmu inc: 56921
...
And no warning message found in dmesg.

So I think your fix is good, we should improve perf.

Thank you.




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