From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
To: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net, kernel-team@fb.com,
peterz@infradead.org, acme@redhat.com, jolsa@kernel.org,
namhyung@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 11/11] perf, bpf: save information about short living bpf programs
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:05:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190217230557.GF7443@krava> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190215215354.3114006-12-songliubraving@fb.com>
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 01:53:54PM -0800, Song Liu wrote:
> To annotate bpf programs in perf, it is necessary to save information in
> bpf_prog_info and btf. For short living bpf program, it is necessary to
> save these information before it is unloaded.
>
> This patch saves these information in a separate thread. This thread
> creates its own evlist, that only tracks bpf events. This evlists uses
> ring buffer with very low watermark for lower latency. When bpf load
> events are received, this thread tries to gather information via sys_bpf
> and save it in perf_env.
could we make this a generic? like havving support
to create a thread that would process sideband evets?
itcould be used for the that buildid stuff and for
things like getting full command lines from comm
events and such
jirka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-17 23:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-15 21:53 [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 00/11] perf annotation of BPF programs Song Liu
2019-02-15 21:53 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 01/11] perf, bpf: consider events with attr.bpf_event as side-band events Song Liu
2019-02-15 21:53 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 02/11] bpf: libbpf: introduce bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear() Song Liu
2019-02-15 21:53 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 03/11] bpf: bpftool: use bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear() in prog.c:do_dump() Song Liu
2019-02-15 21:53 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 04/11] perf, bpf: synthesize bpf events with bpf_program__get_prog_info_linear() Song Liu
2019-02-15 21:53 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 05/11] perf, bpf: save bpf_prog_info in a rbtree in perf_env Song Liu
2019-02-17 23:05 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-19 5:52 ` Song Liu
2019-02-19 8:51 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-19 14:21 ` Song Liu
2019-02-17 23:05 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-17 23:06 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-15 21:53 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 06/11] perf, bpf: save bpf_prog_info information as headers to perf.data Song Liu
2019-02-17 23:05 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-15 21:53 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 07/11] perf, bpf: save btf in a rbtree in perf_env Song Liu
2019-02-15 21:53 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 08/11] perf, bpf: save btf information as headers to perf.data Song Liu
2019-02-17 14:58 ` Namhyung Kim
2019-02-17 23:05 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-17 23:06 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-17 23:06 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-19 5:48 ` Song Liu
2019-02-15 21:53 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 09/11] perf-top: add option --no-bpf-event Song Liu
2019-02-15 21:53 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 10/11] perf, bpf: enable annotation of bpf program Song Liu
2019-02-17 23:05 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-17 23:06 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-17 23:06 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-17 23:06 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-17 23:06 ` Jiri Olsa
2019-02-15 21:53 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 11/11] perf, bpf: save information about short living bpf programs Song Liu
2019-02-17 23:05 ` Jiri Olsa [this message]
2019-02-17 21:57 ` [PATCH v3 perf,bpf 00/11] perf annotation of BPF programs Jiri Olsa
2019-02-17 22:04 ` Jiri Olsa
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