[PATCH 0/9] perf annotation of BPF programs

Song Liu
2019-02-09T01:17:43Z

This series enables annotation of BPF programs in perf.

perf tool gathers information via sys_bpf and (optionally) stores them in
perf.data as headers.

Patch 1/9 fixes a minor issue in kernel;
Patch 2/9 to 4/9 introduce new helper functions and use them in perf and
bpftool;
Patch 5/9 and 6/9 saves information of bpf program in perf_env;
Patch 7/9 adds --bpf-event options to perf-top;
Patch 8/9 enables annotation of bpf programs based on information gathered
in 5/9 and 6/9;
Patch 9/9 handles information of short living BPF program that are loaded
during perf-record or perf-top.

Commands tested during developments are perf-top, perf-record, perf-report,
and perf-annotate.

===================== Note on patch dependency ========================
This set has dependency in both bpf-next tree and tip/perf/core. Current
version is developed on bpf-next tree with the following commits
cherry-picked from tip/perf/core:

(from 1/10 to 10/10)
commit 76193a94522f ("perf, bpf: Introduce PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL")
commit d764ac646491 ("tools headers uapi: Sync tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h")
commit 6ee52e2a3fe4 ("perf, bpf: Introduce PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT")
commit df063c83aa2c ("tools headers uapi: Sync tools/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h")
commit 9aa0bfa370b2 ("perf tools: Handle PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL")
commit 45178a928a4b ("perf tools: Handle PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT")
commit 7b612e291a5a ("perf tools: Synthesize PERF_RECORD_* for loaded BPF programs")
commit a40b95bcd30c ("perf top: Synthesize BPF events for pre-existing loaded BPF programs")
commit 6934058d9fb6 ("bpf: Add module name [bpf] to ksymbols for bpf programs")
commit 811184fb6977 ("perf bpf: Fix synthesized PERF_RECORD_KSYMBOL/BPF_EVENT")
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Song Liu (9):
perf, bpf: consider events with attr.bpf_event as side-band events
bpf: libbpf: introduce bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear()
bpf: bpftool: use bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear() in
prog.c:do_dump()
perf, bpf: synthesize bpf events with
bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear()
perf, bpf: save bpf_prog_info in a rbtree in perf_env
perf, bpf: save btf in a rbtree in perf_env
perf-top: add option --bpf-event
perf, bpf: enable annotation of bpf program
perf, bpf: save information about short living bpf programs

kernel/events/core.c | 3 +-
tools/bpf/bpftool/prog.c | 266 ++++++---------------------
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 251 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h | 63 +++++++
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.map | 3 +
tools/perf/Makefile.config | 2 +-
tools/perf/builtin-record.c | 15 +-
tools/perf/builtin-top.c | 15 +-
tools/perf/util/annotate.c | 149 ++++++++++++++-
tools/perf/util/bpf-event.c | 351 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
tools/perf/util/bpf-event.h | 48 ++++-
tools/perf/util/dso.c | 1 +
tools/perf/util/dso.h | 33 ++--
tools/perf/util/env.c | 148 +++++++++++++++
tools/perf/util/env.h | 12 ++
tools/perf/util/evlist.c | 20 ++
tools/perf/util/evlist.h | 2 +
tools/perf/util/header.c | 231 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
tools/perf/util/header.h | 2 +
tools/perf/util/symbol.c | 1 +
20 files changed, 1304 insertions(+), 312 deletions(-)

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