bpf: add helper bpf_perf_prog_read_value
authorYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Thu, 5 Oct 2017 16:19:22 +0000 (09:19 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 7 Oct 2017 22:05:57 +0000 (23:05 +0100)
commit4bebdc7a85aa400c0222b5329861e4ad9252f1e5
tree59151679b652bacaf545664158a85b0a4c7c75fe
parent020a32d9581ac824d038b0b4e24e977e3cc8589f
bpf: add helper bpf_perf_prog_read_value

This patch adds helper bpf_perf_prog_read_cvalue for perf event based bpf
programs, to read event counter and enabled/running time.
The enabled/running time is accumulated since the perf event open.

The typical use case for perf event based bpf program is to attach itself
to a single event. In such cases, if it is desirable to get scaling factor
between two bpf invocations, users can can save the time values in a map,
and use the value from the map and the current value to calculate
the scaling factor.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c