This set introduces perf-stat -b option to count events for BPF programs. This is similar to bpftool-prog-profile. But perf-stat makes it much more flexible.
Changes v6 => v7 1. Merge documentation change with feature change. (Arnaldo) 2. Fix python import perf. (Arnaldo) 3. Other small fixes. (Namhyung) 4. Improve allocation/free of bpf skeleton. Also added assert()'s to debug a segfault. Changes v5 => v6 1. Update the name for bootstrap bpftool. (Jiri) Changes v4 => v5: 1. Add documentation. (Jiri) 2. Silent make output for removing .bpf.o file. (Jiri) Changes v3 => v4: 1. Split changes in bpftool/Makefile to a separate patch 2. Various small fixes. (Jiri) Changes v2 => v3: 1. Small fixes in Makefile.perf and bpf_counter.c (Jiri) 2. Rebased on top of bpf-next. This is because 1/2 conflicts with some patches in bpftool/Makefile. Changes PATCH v1 => PATCH v2: 1. Various fixes in Makefiles. (Jiri) 2. Fix an build warning/error with gcc-10. (Jiri) Changes RFC v2 => PATCH v1: 1. Support counting on multiple BPF programs. 2. Add BPF handling to target__validate(). 3. Improve Makefile. (Jiri) Changes RFC v1 => RFC v2: 1. Use bootstrap version of bpftool. (Jiri) 2. Set default to not building bpf skeletons. (Jiri) 3. Remove util/bpf_skel/Makefile, keep all the logic in Makefile.perf. (Jiri) 4. Remove dependency to vmlinux.h in the two skeletons. The goal here is to enable building perf without building kernel (vmlinux) first. Note: I also removed the logic that build vmlinux.h. We can add that back when we have to use it (to access big kernel structures). Song Liu (3): bpftool: add Makefile target bootstrap perf: support build BPF skeletons with perf perf-stat: enable counting events for BPF programs tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile | 2 + tools/build/Makefile.feature | 4 +- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt | 18 ++ tools/perf/Makefile.config | 9 + tools/perf/Makefile.perf | 49 ++- tools/perf/builtin-stat.c | 82 ++++- tools/perf/util/Build | 1 + tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.c | 297 ++++++++++++++++++ tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.h | 72 +++++ tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/.gitignore | 3 + .../util/bpf_skel/bpf_prog_profiler.bpf.c | 93 ++++++ tools/perf/util/evsel.c | 9 + tools/perf/util/evsel.h | 5 + tools/perf/util/python.c | 21 ++ tools/perf/util/stat-display.c | 4 +- tools/perf/util/stat.c | 2 +- tools/perf/util/target.c | 34 +- tools/perf/util/target.h | 10 + tools/scripts/Makefile.include | 1 + 19 files changed, 696 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.c create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.h create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/.gitignore create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/bpf_prog_profiler.bpf.c -- 2.24.1