Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC perf,bpf 5/5] perf util: generate bpf_prog_info_event for short living bpf programs | From | David Ahern <> | Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2018 11:12:45 -0700 |
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On 11/6/18 6:09 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > On 11/6/18 4:44 PM, David Ahern wrote: >> >> So one use case is profiling bpf programs. I was also considering the >> auditing discussion from some weeks ago which I thought the events are >> also targeting. > > yes. there should be separate mode for 're: audit discussion' where > only bpf events are collected. This patch set doesn't add that to > perf user space side. > The kernel side is common though. It can be used for bpf load/unload > only and for different use case in this set. Which is making > bpf program appear in normal 'perf report'.
It would be good for perf-script to work in the next version. Users should be able to dump the event from the kernel and the synthesized events. Should be trivial to add and allows a review of both perspectives -- profiling and monitoring events.
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