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Message-Id: <3429be0c-1a10-452e-a566-bf02db72f5ba@www.fastmail.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 14:50:47 -0700
From: "Daniel Xu" <dxu@...uu.xyz>
To: "Song Liu" <songliubraving@...com>, "Yonghong Song" <yhs@...com>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andriin@...com>, peterz@...radead.org,
mingo@...hat.com, acme@...nel.org
Cc: ast@...com, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com, jolsa@...hat.com,
namhyung@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/4] tracing/probe: Add PERF_EVENT_IOC_QUERY_PROBE
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, at 2:47 PM, Daniel Xu wrote:
> It's useful to know [uk]probe's nmissed and nhit stats. For example with
> tracing tools, it's important to know when events may have been lost.
> debugfs currently exposes a control file to get this information, but
> it is not compatible with probes registered with the perf API.
>
> While bpf programs may be able to manually count nhit, there is no way
> to gather nmissed. In other words, it is currently not possible to
> retrieve information about FD-based probes.
>
> This patch adds a new ioctl that lets users query nmissed (as well as
> nhit for completeness). We currently only add support for [uk]probes
> but leave the possibility open for other probes like tracepoint.
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - More descriptive cover letter
> - Make API more generic and support uprobes as well
> - Use casters/getters for libbpf instead of single getter
> - Fix typos
> - Remove size field from ioctl struct
> - Split out libbpf.h sync to tools dir to separate commit
>
> Daniel Xu (4):
> tracing/probe: Add PERF_EVENT_IOC_QUERY_PROBE ioctl
> libbpf: Add helpers to extract perf fd from bpf_link
> tracing/probe: Sync perf_event.h to tools
> tracing/probe: Add self test for PERF_EVENT_IOC_QUERY_PROBE
>
> include/linux/trace_events.h | 12 +++
> include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 19 ++++
> kernel/events/core.c | 20 ++++
> kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 23 ++++
> kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c | 23 ++++
> tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 19 ++++
> tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 19 ++++
> tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h | 8 ++
> tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.map | 6 ++
> .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/attach_probe.c | 102 ++++++++++++++++++
> 10 files changed, 251 insertions(+)
>
> --
> 2.20.1
>
>
CC PeterZ, whose email I misspelled. Apologies.
Daniel
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