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Commit 88d61607 authored by Yafang Shao's avatar Yafang Shao Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpftool: Show perf link info



Enhance bpftool to display comprehensive information about exposed
perf_event links, covering uprobe, kprobe, tracepoint, and generic perf
event. The resulting output will include the following details:

$ tools/bpf/bpftool/bpftool link show
3: perf_event  prog 14
        event software:cpu-clock
        bpf_cookie 0
        pids perf_event(19483)
4: perf_event  prog 14
        event hw-cache:LLC-load-misses
        bpf_cookie 0
        pids perf_event(19483)
5: perf_event  prog 14
        event hardware:cpu-cycles
        bpf_cookie 0
        pids perf_event(19483)
6: perf_event  prog 19
        tracepoint sched_switch
        bpf_cookie 0
        pids tracepoint(20947)
7: perf_event  prog 26
        uprobe /home/dev/waken/bpf/uprobe/a.out+0x1338
        bpf_cookie 0
        pids uprobe(21973)
8: perf_event  prog 27
        uretprobe /home/dev/waken/bpf/uprobe/a.out+0x1338
        bpf_cookie 0
        pids uprobe(21973)
10: perf_event  prog 43
        kprobe ffffffffb70a9660 kernel_clone
        bpf_cookie 0
        pids kprobe(35275)
11: perf_event  prog 41
        kretprobe ffffffffb70a9660 kernel_clone
        bpf_cookie 0
        pids kprobe(35275)

$ tools/bpf/bpftool/bpftool link show -j
[{"id":3,"type":"perf_event","prog_id":14,"event_type":"software","event_config":"cpu-clock","bpf_cookie":0,"pids":[{"pid":19483,"comm":"perf_event"}]},{"id":4,"type":"perf_event","prog_id":14,"event_type":"hw-cache","event_config":"LLC-load-misses","bpf_cookie":0,"pids":[{"pid":19483,"comm":"perf_event"}]},{"id":5,"type":"perf_event","prog_id":14,"event_type":"hardware","event_config":"cpu-cycles","bpf_cookie":0,"pids":[{"pid":19483,"comm":"perf_event"}]},{"id":6,"type":"perf_event","prog_id":19,"tracepoint":"sched_switch","bpf_cookie":0,"pids":[{"pid":20947,"comm":"tracepoint"}]},{"id":7,"type":"perf_event","prog_id":26,"retprobe":false,"file":"/home/dev/waken/bpf/uprobe/a.out","offset":4920,"bpf_cookie":0,"pids":[{"pid":21973,"comm":"uprobe"}]},{"id":8,"type":"perf_event","prog_id":27,"retprobe":true,"file":"/home/dev/waken/bpf/uprobe/a.out","offset":4920,"bpf_cookie":0,"pids":[{"pid":21973,"comm":"uprobe"}]},{"id":10,"type":"perf_event","prog_id":43,"retprobe":false,"addr":18446744072485508704,"func":"kernel_clone","offset":0,"bpf_cookie":0,"pids":[{"pid":35275,"comm":"kprobe"}]},{"id":11,"type":"perf_event","prog_id":41,"retprobe":true,"addr":18446744072485508704,"func":"kernel_clone","offset":0,"bpf_cookie":0,"pids":[{"pid":35275,"comm":"kprobe"}]}]

For generic perf events, the displayed information in bpftool is limited to
the type and configuration, while other attributes such as sample_period,
sample_freq, etc., are not included.

The kernel function address won't be exposed if it is not permitted by
kptr_restrict. The result as follows when kptr_restrict is 2.

$ tools/bpf/bpftool/bpftool link show
3: perf_event  prog 14
        event software:cpu-clock
4: perf_event  prog 14
        event hw-cache:LLC-load-misses
5: perf_event  prog 14
        event hardware:cpu-cycles
6: perf_event  prog 19
        tracepoint sched_switch
7: perf_event  prog 26
        uprobe /home/dev/waken/bpf/uprobe/a.out+0x1338
8: perf_event  prog 27
        uretprobe /home/dev/waken/bpf/uprobe/a.out+0x1338
10: perf_event  prog 43
        kprobe kernel_clone
11: perf_event  prog 41
        kretprobe kernel_clone

Signed-off-by: default avatarYafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarQuentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230709025630.3735-11-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
parent 62b57e3d
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