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perf, bpf: Introduce PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL
authorSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:15:13 +0000 (08:15 -0800)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Mon, 21 Jan 2019 20:00:57 +0000 (17:00 -0300)
commit76193a94522f1d4edf2447a536f3f796ce56343b
treebb8241e16e7199f38b91539ab379037f969af507
parent5620196951192f7cd2da0a04e7c0113f40bfc14e
perf, bpf: Introduce PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL

For better performance analysis of dynamically JITed and loaded kernel
functions, such as BPF programs, this patch introduces
PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL, a new perf_event_type that exposes kernel symbol
register/unregister information to user space.

The following data structure is used for PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL.

    /*
     * struct {
     *      struct perf_event_header        header;
     *      u64                             addr;
     *      u32                             len;
     *      u16                             ksym_type;
     *      u16                             flags;
     *      char                            name[];
     *      struct sample_id                sample_id;
     * };
     */

Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190117161521.1341602-2-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
include/linux/perf_event.h
include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/events/core.c