Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 14 Oct 2015 08:27:43 +0200 | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Subject | Re: [patch 03/11] perf_event_open.2: 4.1 PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF support |
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On 07/23/2015 07:10 PM, Vince Weaver wrote: > > This manpage patch relates to the addition of the > PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF ioctl in the following commit:
Thanks, Vince. Applied.
Cheers,
Michael
> commit 2541517c32be2531e0da59dfd7efc1ce844644f5 > Author: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> > > tracing, perf: Implement BPF programs attached to kprobes > > Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> > Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> > Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org> > Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> > Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> > Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> > Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> > Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> > Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427312966-8434-4-git-send-email-ast@plumgrid.com > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> > > > Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu> > > diff --git a/man2/perf_event_open.2 b/man2/perf_event_open.2 > index a6b90ec..09eda9a 100644 > --- a/man2/perf_event_open.2 > +++ b/man2/perf_event_open.2 > @@ -2570,6 +2570,19 @@ This returns the event ID value for the given event file descriptor. > > The argument is a pointer to a 64-bit unsigned integer > to hold the result. > +.TP > +.BR PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF " (since Linux 4.1)" > +.\" commit 2541517c32be2531e0da59dfd7efc1ce844644f5 > +This allows attaching a Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) > +program to an existing kprobe tracepoint event. > +You need > +.B CAP_SYS_ADMIN > +privileges to use this ioctl. > + > +The argument is a BPF program file descriptor that was created by > +a previous > +.BR bpf (2) > +system call. > .SS Using prctl > A process can enable or disable all the event groups that are > attached to it using the >
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