From: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
To: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@oracle.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
dtrace-devel@oss.oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
rostedt@goodmis.org, mhiramat@kernel.org, acme@kernel.org,
ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, peterz@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] bpf, trace, dtrace: DTrace BPF program type implementation and sample use
Date: Tue, 21 May 2019 10:56:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190521175617.ipry6ue7o24a2e6n@ast-mbp.dhcp.thefacebook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201905202347.x4KNl0cs030532@aserv0121.oracle.com>
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 11:47:00PM +0000, Kris Van Hees wrote:
>
> 2. bpf: add BPF_PROG_TYPE_DTRACE
>
> This patch adds BPF_PROG_TYPE_DTRACE as a new BPF program type, without
> actually providing an implementation. The actual implementation is
> added in patch 4 (see below). We do it this way because the
> implementation is being added to the tracing subsystem as a component
> that I would be happy to maintain (if merged) whereas the declaration
> of the program type must be in the bpf subsystem. Since the two
> subsystems are maintained by different people, we split the
> implementing patches across maintainer boundaries while ensuring that
> the kernel remains buildable between patches.
None of these kernel patches are necessary for what you want to achieve.
Feel free to add tools/dtrace/ directory and maintain it though.
The new dtrace_buffer doesn't need to replicate existing bpf+kernel functionality
and no changes are necessary in kernel/events/ring_buffer.c either.
tools/dtrace/ user space component can use either per-cpu array map
or hash map as a buffer to store arbitrary data into and use
existing bpf_perf_event_output() to send it to user space via perf ring buffer.
See, for example, how bpftrace does that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-21 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-20 23:47 [RFC PATCH 00/11] bpf, trace, dtrace: DTrace BPF program type implementation and sample use Kris Van Hees
2019-05-21 17:56 ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2019-05-21 18:41 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-21 20:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-05-21 21:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-21 21:43 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-05-21 21:48 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-22 5:23 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-22 20:53 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-05-23 5:46 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-23 21:13 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-05-23 23:02 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-24 0:31 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-05-24 1:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-24 2:08 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-05-24 2:40 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-24 5:26 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-24 5:10 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-24 4:05 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-24 13:28 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-21 21:36 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-21 23:26 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-05-22 4:12 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-22 20:16 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-05-23 5:16 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-23 20:28 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-05-30 16:15 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-31 15:25 ` Chris Mason
2019-06-06 20:58 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-06-18 1:25 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-06-18 1:32 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-18 1:54 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-06-18 3:01 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-06-18 3:19 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-22 14:25 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-22 18:22 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-22 19:55 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-05-22 20:20 ` David Miller
2019-05-23 5:19 ` Kris Van Hees
2019-05-24 7:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-21 20:39 ` [RFC PATCH 01/11] bpf: context casting for tail call Kris Van Hees
2019-05-21 20:39 ` [RFC PATCH 02/11] bpf: add BPF_PROG_TYPE_DTRACE Kris Van Hees
2019-05-21 20:39 ` [RFC PATCH 03/11] bpf: export proto for bpf_perf_event_output helper Kris Van Hees
[not found] ` <facilities>
2019-05-21 20:39 ` [RFC PATCH 04/11] trace: initial implementation of DTrace based on kernel Kris Van Hees
2019-05-21 20:39 ` [RFC PATCH 05/11] trace: update Kconfig and Makefile to include DTrace Kris Van Hees
[not found] ` <features>
2019-05-21 20:39 ` [RFC PATCH 06/11] dtrace: tiny userspace tool to exercise DTrace support Kris Van Hees
2019-05-21 20:39 ` [RFC PATCH 07/11] bpf: implement writable buffers in contexts Kris Van Hees
2019-05-21 20:39 ` [RFC PATCH 08/11] perf: add perf_output_begin_forward_in_page Kris Van Hees
[not found] ` <the>
[not found] ` <context>
2019-05-21 20:39 ` [RFC PATCH 09/11] bpf: mark helpers explicitly whether they may change Kris Van Hees
[not found] ` <helpers>
2019-05-21 20:39 ` [RFC PATCH 10/11] bpf: add bpf_buffer_reserve and bpf_buffer_commit Kris Van Hees
2019-05-21 20:40 ` [RFC PATCH 11/11] dtrace: make use of writable buffers in BPF Kris Van Hees
2019-05-21 20:48 ` [RFC PATCH 00/11] bpf, trace, dtrace: DTrace BPF program type implementation and sample use Kris Van Hees
2019-05-21 20:54 ` Steven Rostedt
2019-05-21 20:56 ` Alexei Starovoitov
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