linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] perf: generate events for BPF metadata

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Message-Id: <175052888455.2250071.10445782247610137684.b4-ty@kernel.org>
Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2025 11:01:24 -0700
From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
To: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>, 
 Ian Rogers <irogers@...gle.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...nel.org>, 
 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, 
 Blake Jones <blakejones@...gle.com>
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 Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] perf: generate events for BPF metadata

On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:49:34 -0700, Blake Jones wrote:
> Commit ffa915f46193 ("Merge branch 'bpf_metadata'"), from September 2020,
> added support to the kernel, libbpf, and bpftool to treat read-only BPF
> variables that have names starting with 'bpf_metadata_' specially. This
> patch series updates perf to handle these variables similarly, allowing a
> perf.data file to capture relevant information about BPF programs on the
> system being profiled.
> 
> [...]
Applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!

Best regards,
Namhyung