History log of /linux-master/tools/bpf/bpftool/skeleton/profiler.bpf.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 658ac068 07-Jul-2023 Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>

bpftool: Use a local bpf_perf_event_value to fix accessing its fields

Fix the following error when building bpftool:

CLANG profiler.bpf.o
CLANG pid_iter.bpf.o
skeleton/profiler.bpf.c:18:21: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to an incomplete type 'struct bpf_perf_event_value'
__uint(value_size, sizeof(struct bpf_perf_event_value));
^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
tools/bpf/bpftool/bootstrap/libbpf/include/bpf/bpf_helpers.h:13:39: note: expanded from macro '__uint'
tools/bpf/bpftool/bootstrap/libbpf/include/bpf/bpf_helper_defs.h:7:8: note: forward declaration of 'struct bpf_perf_event_value'
struct bpf_perf_event_value;
^

struct bpf_perf_event_value is being used in the kernel only when
CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS is enabled, so it misses a BTF entry then.
Define struct bpf_perf_event_value___local with the
`preserve_access_index` attribute inside the pid_iter BPF prog to
allow compiling on any configs. It is a full mirror of a UAPI
structure, so is compatible both with and w/o CO-RE.
bpf_perf_event_read_value() requires a pointer of the original type,
so a cast is needed.

Fixes: 47c09d6a9f67 ("bpftool: Introduce "prog profile" command")
Suggested-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Lobakin <alobakin@pm.me>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230707095425.168126-5-quentin@isovalent.com


# 0698ac66 27-Oct-2020 Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>

tools, bpftool: Remove two unused variables.

Avoid an unused variable warning.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201027233646.3434896-2-irogers@google.com


# 05aca6da 19-Jun-2020 Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>

tools/bpftool: Generalize BPF skeleton support and generate vmlinux.h

Adapt Makefile to support BPF skeleton generation beyond single profiler.bpf.c
case. Also add vmlinux.h generation and switch profiler.bpf.c to use it.

clang-bpf-global-var feature is extended and renamed to clang-bpf-co-re to
check for support of preserve_access_index attribute, which, together with BTF
for global variables, is the minimum requirement for modern BPF programs.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200619231703.738941-7-andriin@fb.com


# bb8dc269 19-Jun-2020 Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>

tools/bpftool: Relicense bpftool's BPF profiler prog as dual-license GPL/BSD

Relicense it to be compatible with the rest of bpftool files.

Suggested-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200619222024.519774-1-andriin@fb.com


# 47c09d6a 09-Mar-2020 Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>

bpftool: Introduce "prog profile" command

With fentry/fexit programs, it is possible to profile BPF program with
hardware counters. Introduce bpftool "prog profile", which measures key
metrics of a BPF program.

bpftool prog profile command creates per-cpu perf events. Then it attaches
fentry/fexit programs to the target BPF program. The fentry program saves
perf event value to a map. The fexit program reads the perf event again,
and calculates the difference, which is the instructions/cycles used by
the target program.

Example input and output:

./bpftool prog profile id 337 duration 3 cycles instructions llc_misses

4228 run_cnt
3403698 cycles (84.08%)
3525294 instructions # 1.04 insn per cycle (84.05%)
13 llc_misses # 3.69 LLC misses per million isns (83.50%)

This command measures cycles and instructions for BPF program with id
337 for 3 seconds. The program has triggered 4228 times. The rest of the
output is similar to perf-stat. In this example, the counters were only
counting ~84% of the time because of time multiplexing of perf counters.

Note that, this approach measures cycles and instructions in very small
increments. So the fentry/fexit programs introduce noticeable errors to
the measurement results.

The fentry/fexit programs are generated with BPF skeletons. Therefore, we
build bpftool twice. The first time _bpftool is built without skeletons.
Then, _bpftool is used to generate the skeletons. The second time, bpftool
is built with skeletons.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200309173218.2739965-2-songliubraving@fb.com