perf tools: Enable passing bpf object file to --event

By introducing new rules in tools/perf/util/parse-events.[ly], this
patch enables 'perf record --event bpf_file.o' to select events by an
eBPF object file. It calls parse_events_load_bpf() to load that file,
which uses bpf__prepare_load() and finally calls bpf_object__open() for
the object files.

After applying this patch, commands like:

 # perf record --event foo.o sleep

become possible.

However, at this point it is unable to link any useful things onto the
evsel list because the creating of probe points and BPF program
attaching have not been implemented.  Before real events are possible to
be extracted, to avoid perf report error because of empty evsel list,
this patch link a dummy evsel. The dummy event related code will be
removed when probing and extracting code is ready.

Commiter notes:

Using it:

  $ ls -la foo.o
  ls: cannot access foo.o: No such file or directory
  $ perf record --event foo.o sleep
  libbpf: failed to open foo.o: No such file or directory
  event syntax error: 'foo.o'
                       \___ BPF object file 'foo.o' is invalid

  (add -v to see detail)
  Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

   Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
      or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]

      -e, --event <event>   event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
  $

  $ file /tmp/build/perf/perf.o
  /tmp/build/perf/perf.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
  $ perf record --event /tmp/build/perf/perf.o sleep
  libbpf: /tmp/build/perf/perf.o is not an eBPF object file
  event syntax error: '/tmp/build/perf/perf.o'
                       \___ BPF object file '/tmp/build/perf/perf.o' is invalid

  (add -v to see detail)
  Run 'perf list' for a list of valid events

   Usage: perf record [<options>] [<command>]
      or: perf record [<options>] -- <command> [<options>]

      -e, --event <event>   event selector. use 'perf list' to list available events
  $

  $ file /tmp/foo.o
  /tmp/foo.o: ELF 64-bit LSB relocatable, no machine, version 1 (SYSV), not stripped
  $ perf record --event /tmp/foo.o sleep 1
  [ perf record: Woken up 1 times to write data ]
  [ perf record: Captured and wrote 0.013 MB perf.data ]
  $ perf evlist
  /tmp/foo.o
  $ perf evlist  -v
  /tmp/foo.o: type: 1, size: 112, config: 0x9, { sample_period, sample_freq }: 4000, sample_type: IP|TID|TIME|PERIOD, disabled: 1, inherit: 1, mmap: 1, comm: 1, freq: 1, enable_on_exec: 1, task: 1, sample_id_all: 1, exclude_guest: 1, mmap2: 1, comm_exec: 1
  $

So, type 1 is PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, config 0x9 is PERF_COUNT_SW_DUMMY, ok.

  $ perf report --stdio
  Error:
  The perf.data file has no samples!
  # To display the perf.data header info, please use --header/--header-only options.
  #
  $

Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@huawei.com>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Brendan Gregg <brendan.d.gregg@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: He Kuang <hekuang@huawei.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Kaixu Xia <xiakaixu@huawei.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: pi3orama@163.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1444826502-49291-4-git-send-email-wangnan0@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
index ae6af269f9c9..497f19b20f0b 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
+++ b/tools/perf/util/parse-events.y
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ static inc_group_count(struct list_head *list,
 %token PE_VALUE PE_VALUE_SYM_HW PE_VALUE_SYM_SW PE_RAW PE_TERM
 %token PE_EVENT_NAME
 %token PE_NAME
+%token PE_BPF_OBJECT
 %token PE_MODIFIER_EVENT PE_MODIFIER_BP
 %token PE_NAME_CACHE_TYPE PE_NAME_CACHE_OP_RESULT
 %token PE_PREFIX_MEM PE_PREFIX_RAW PE_PREFIX_GROUP
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ static inc_group_count(struct list_head *list,
 %type <num> PE_RAW
 %type <num> PE_TERM
 %type <str> PE_NAME
+%type <str> PE_BPF_OBJECT
 %type <str> PE_NAME_CACHE_TYPE
 %type <str> PE_NAME_CACHE_OP_RESULT
 %type <str> PE_MODIFIER_EVENT
@@ -70,6 +72,7 @@ static inc_group_count(struct list_head *list,
 %type <tracepoint_name> tracepoint_name
 %type <head> event_legacy_numeric
 %type <head> event_legacy_raw
+%type <head> event_bpf_file
 %type <head> event_def
 %type <head> event_mod
 %type <head> event_name
@@ -203,7 +206,8 @@ event_def: event_pmu |
 	   event_legacy_mem |
 	   event_legacy_tracepoint sep_dc |
 	   event_legacy_numeric sep_dc |
-	   event_legacy_raw sep_dc
+	   event_legacy_raw sep_dc |
+	   event_bpf_file
 
 event_pmu:
 PE_NAME '/' event_config '/'
@@ -449,6 +453,18 @@ PE_RAW
 	$$ = list;
 }
 
+event_bpf_file:
+PE_BPF_OBJECT
+{
+	struct parse_events_evlist *data = _data;
+	struct parse_events_error *error = data->error;
+	struct list_head *list;
+
+	ALLOC_LIST(list);
+	ABORT_ON(parse_events_load_bpf(data, list, $1));
+	$$ = list;
+}
+
 start_terms: event_config
 {
 	struct parse_events_terms *data = _data;