From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
To: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2019 22:14:07 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190315221407.790154f634fc5fc084d7bf15@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190314122748.GA101545@google.com>
On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 08:27:48 -0400
Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> wrote:
> > But the eBPF is based on kprobe-events. What kind of usage would you
> > expected? (with macros??)
>
> eBPF C programs are compiled with kernel headers. They can execute inline
> functions or refer to macros in the kernel headers. They are similar to
> kernel modules where you build a C program that then later is executed in
> kernel context. It goes through the whole compiler pipeline. This is slightly
> different usage from pure kprobe-events. Also eBPF kprobe programs need
> LINUX_VERSION_CODE (or similarly named) macro which it provides to the bpf(2)
> syscall when loading kprobe programs. This is because eBPF implementation in
> the kernel checks if the eBPF programs that use kprobes are being loaded
> against the right kernel.
Ah, I got it. It's similar to SystemTap. :)
Thank you,
--
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-15 13:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-01 16:08 [PATCH v4 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-01 16:08 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] Add selftests for module build using in-kernel headers Joel Fernandes (Google)
2019-03-02 21:59 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] Provide in-kernel headers for making it easy to extend the kernel kbuild test robot
2019-03-03 16:11 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-06 12:26 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-06 17:49 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 4:59 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-07 14:54 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 23:23 ` Justin Capella
2019-03-06 18:16 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 4:54 ` Masahiro Yamada
2019-03-03 2:04 ` kbuild test robot
2019-03-04 14:00 ` Qais Yousef
2019-03-05 16:27 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-04 22:48 ` Dietmar Eggemann
2019-03-05 16:25 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 8:58 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-07 15:03 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-07 15:23 ` Greg KH
2019-03-07 16:54 ` Joel Fernandes
[not found] ` <20190318185742.109dee5c@alans-desktop>
2019-03-18 21:11 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-08 8:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-08 13:42 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-08 13:57 ` Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult
2019-03-08 14:04 ` Greg KH
2019-03-08 14:02 ` Greg KH
2019-03-08 17:58 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-08 17:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-09 7:16 ` Greg KH
2019-03-09 11:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-09 12:11 ` Greg KH
2019-03-09 16:51 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-09 19:26 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-09 21:44 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-11 8:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-03-12 15:15 ` Karim Yaghmour
2019-03-11 23:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-11 23:58 ` Daniel Colascione
2019-03-12 0:39 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-12 1:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-12 1:38 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-13 1:18 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2019-03-14 12:27 ` Joel Fernandes
2019-03-15 13:14 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2019-03-12 1:45 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-03-12 15:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-12 1:22 ` Steven Rostedt
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