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author | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> | 2015-03-25 20:49:20 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2015-04-02 13:25:49 +0200 |
commit | 2541517c32be2531e0da59dfd7efc1ce844644f5 (patch) | |
tree | a69f215a0bbc2f5db1a5d7aff83a465940e40e01 /kernel/trace/Makefile | |
parent | tracing: Add kprobe flag (diff) | |
download | linux-2541517c32be2531e0da59dfd7efc1ce844644f5.tar.xz linux-2541517c32be2531e0da59dfd7efc1ce844644f5.zip |
tracing, perf: Implement BPF programs attached to kprobes
BPF programs, attached to kprobes, provide a safe way to execute
user-defined BPF byte-code programs without being able to crash or
hang the kernel in any way. The BPF engine makes sure that such
programs have a finite execution time and that they cannot break
out of their sandbox.
The user interface is to attach to a kprobe via the perf syscall:
struct perf_event_attr attr = {
.type = PERF_TYPE_TRACEPOINT,
.config = event_id,
...
};
event_fd = perf_event_open(&attr,...);
ioctl(event_fd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF, prog_fd);
'prog_fd' is a file descriptor associated with BPF program
previously loaded.
'event_id' is an ID of the kprobe created.
Closing 'event_fd':
close(event_fd);
... automatically detaches BPF program from it.
BPF programs can call in-kernel helper functions to:
- lookup/update/delete elements in maps
- probe_read - wraper of probe_kernel_read() used to access any
kernel data structures
BPF programs receive 'struct pt_regs *' as an input ('struct pt_regs' is
architecture dependent) and return 0 to ignore the event and 1 to store
kprobe event into the ring buffer.
Note, kprobes are a fundamentally _not_ a stable kernel ABI,
so BPF programs attached to kprobes must be recompiled for
every kernel version and user must supply correct LINUX_VERSION_CODE
in attr.kern_version during bpf_prog_load() call.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427312966-8434-4-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/trace/Makefile')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/trace/Makefile | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/Makefile b/kernel/trace/Makefile index 98f26588255e..c575a300103b 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/Makefile +++ b/kernel/trace/Makefile @@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += trace_event_perf.o endif obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += trace_events_filter.o obj-$(CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING) += trace_events_trigger.o +obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += bpf_trace.o obj-$(CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENT) += trace_kprobe.o obj-$(CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS) += power-traces.o ifeq ($(CONFIG_PM),y) |