From: Teng Qin <qinteng@fb.com>
To: <ast@fb.com>, <daniel@iogearbox.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
CC: <yhs@fb.com>, <qinteng@fb.com>, <kernel-team@fb.com>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next 0/2] bpf: add support for bpf program to read perf event sample address
Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 10:55:00 -0800
Message-ID: <20180306185502.1948838-1-qinteng@fb.com>
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Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org

These patches add support that allows bpf programs attached to perf events to
read the address values recorded with the perf events. These values are
requested by specifying sample_type with PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR when calling
perf_event_open().

The main motivation for these changes is to support building memory or lock
access profiling and tracing tools. For example on Intel CPUs, the recorded
address values for supported memory or lock access perf events would be
the access or lock target addresses from PEBS buffer. Such information would
be very valuable for building tools that help understand memory access or
lock acquire pattern.

Teng Qin (2):
  bpf: add support to read sample address in bpf program
  samples/bpf: add example to test reading address

 include/uapi/linux/bpf_perf_event.h |  1 +
 kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c            | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
 samples/bpf/trace_event_kern.c      |  4 ++++
 samples/bpf/trace_event_user.c      | 15 +++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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