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| author | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> | 2015-10-20 20:02:34 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-10-22 06:42:15 -0700 |
| commit | a43eec304259a6c637f4014a6d4767159b6a3aa3 (patch) | |
| tree | aecaeb92ff5263f446b002793d89a2a211dc246b /include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | |
| parent | fa128e6a148a0a58355bd6814c6283515bbd028a (diff) | |
bpf: introduce bpf_perf_event_output() helper
This helper is used to send raw data from eBPF program into
special PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE/PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT perf_event.
User space needs to perf_event_open() it (either for one or all cpus) and
store FD into perf_event_array (similar to bpf_perf_event_read() helper)
before eBPF program can send data into it.
Today the programs triggered by kprobe collect the data and either store
it into the maps or print it via bpf_trace_printk() where latter is the debug
facility and not suitable to stream the data. This new helper replaces
such bpf_trace_printk() usage and allows programs to have dedicated
channel into user space for post-processing of the raw data collected.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h index 2881145cda86..d3c417615361 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ enum perf_sw_ids { PERF_COUNT_SW_ALIGNMENT_FAULTS = 7, PERF_COUNT_SW_EMULATION_FAULTS = 8, PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY = 9, + PERF_COUNT_SW_BPF_OUTPUT = 10, PERF_COUNT_SW_MAX, /* non-ABI */ }; |