Introduce SKIP_LLVM, SKIP_LIBBFD, and SKIP_CRYPTO build flags that let
users build bpftool without these optional dependencies.
SKIP_LLVM=1 skips LLVM even when detected. SKIP_LIBBFD=1 prevents the
libbfd JIT disassembly fallback when LLVM is absent. Together, they
produce a bpftool with no disassembly support.
SKIP_CRYPTO=1 excludes sign.c and removes the -lcrypto link dependency.
Inline stubs in main.h return errors with a clear message if signing
functions are called at runtime.
Use BPFTOOL_WITHOUT_CRYPTO (not HAVE_LIBCRYPTO_SUPPORT) as the C
define, following the BPFTOOL_WITHOUT_SKELETONS naming convention for
bpftool-internal build config, leaving HAVE_LIBCRYPTO_SUPPORT free for
proper feature detection in the future.
All three flags are propagated through the selftests Makefile to bpftool
sub-builds.
Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <yatsenko@meta.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260312-b4-bpftool_build-v2-1-4c9d57133644@meta.com
When building selftests/bpf with EXTRA_LDFLAGS=-static the follwoing
error happens:
LINK /ws/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/bootstrap/bpftool
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a(libcrypto-lib-dso_dlfcn.o): in function `dlfcn_globallookup':
[...]
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a(libcrypto-lib-c_zlib.o): in function `zlib_oneshot_expand_block':
(.text+0xc64): undefined reference to `uncompress'
/usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld.bfd: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/15/../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.a(libcrypto-lib-c_zlib.o): in function `zlib_oneshot_compress_block':
(.text+0xce4): undefined reference to `compress'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [Makefile:252: /ws/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/bootstrap/bpftool] Error 1
make: *** [Makefile:327: /ws/linux/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/sbin/bpftool] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
This is caused by wrong order of dependencies in the Makefile. Fix it.
Signed-off-by: Ihor Solodrai <ihor.solodrai@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260128211255.376933-1-ihor.solodrai@linux.dev
The kernel is now built with -fms-extensions. Anonymous structs or
unions permitted by these extensions have been used in several places,
and can end up in the generated vmlinux.h file, for example:
struct ns_tree {
[...]
};
[...]
struct ns_common {
[...]
union {
struct ns_tree;
struct callback_head ns_rcu;
};
};
Trying to include this header for compiling a tool may result in build
warnings, if the compiler does not expect these extensions. This is the
case, for example, with bpftool:
In file included from skeleton/pid_iter.bpf.c:3:
.../tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/vmlinux.h:64057:3:
warning: declaration does not declare anything
[-Wmissing-declarations]
64057 | struct ns_tree;
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Fix these build warnings in bpftool by turning on Microsoft extensions
when compiling the two BPF programs that rely on vmlinux.h.
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQK9ZkPC7+R5VXKHVdtj8tumpMXm7BTp0u9CoiFLz_aPTg@mail.gmail.com/
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251208130748.68371-1-qmo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Two modes of operation being added:
Add two modes of operation:
* For prog load, allow signing a program immediately before loading. This
is essential for command-line testing and administration.
bpftool prog load -S -k <private_key> -i <identity_cert> fentry_test.bpf.o
* For gen skeleton, embed a pre-generated signature into the C skeleton
file. This supports the use of signed programs in compiled applications.
bpftool gen skeleton -S -k <private_key> -i <identity_cert> fentry_test.bpf.o
Generation of the loader program and its metadata map is implemented in
libbpf (bpf_obj__gen_loader). bpftool generates a skeleton that loads
the program and automates the required steps: freezing the map, creating
an exclusive map, loading, and running. Users can use standard libbpf
APIs directly or integrate loader program generation into their own
toolchains.
Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250921160120.9711-5-kpsingh@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov:
"For this merge window we're splitting BPF pull request into three for
higher visibility: main changes, res_spin_lock, try_alloc_pages.
These are the main BPF changes:
- Add DFA-based live registers analysis to improve verification of
programs with loops (Eduard Zingerman)
- Introduce load_acquire and store_release BPF instructions and add
x86, arm64 JIT support (Peilin Ye)
- Fix loop detection logic in the verifier (Eduard Zingerman)
- Drop unnecesary lock in bpf_map_inc_not_zero() (Eric Dumazet)
- Add kfunc for populating cpumask bits (Emil Tsalapatis)
- Convert various shell based tests to selftests/bpf/test_progs
format (Bastien Curutchet)
- Allow passing referenced kptrs into struct_ops callbacks (Amery
Hung)
- Add a flag to LSM bpf hook to facilitate bpf program signing
(Blaise Boscaccy)
- Track arena arguments in kfuncs (Ihor Solodrai)
- Add copy_remote_vm_str() helper for reading strings from remote VM
and bpf_copy_from_user_task_str() kfunc (Jordan Rome)
- Add support for timed may_goto instruction (Kumar Kartikeya
Dwivedi)
- Allow bpf_get_netns_cookie() int cgroup_skb programs (Mahe Tardy)
- Reduce bpf_cgrp_storage_busy false positives when accessing cgroup
local storage (Martin KaFai Lau)
- Introduce bpf_dynptr_copy() kfunc (Mykyta Yatsenko)
- Allow retrieving BTF data with BTF token (Mykyta Yatsenko)
- Add BPF kfuncs to set and get xattrs with 'security.bpf.' prefix
(Song Liu)
- Reject attaching programs to noreturn functions (Yafang Shao)
- Introduce pre-order traversal of cgroup bpf programs (Yonghong
Song)"
* tag 'bpf-next-6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (186 commits)
selftests/bpf: Add selftests for load-acquire/store-release when register number is invalid
bpf: Fix out-of-bounds read in check_atomic_load/store()
libbpf: Add namespace for errstr making it libbpf_errstr
bpf: Add struct_ops context information to struct bpf_prog_aux
selftests/bpf: Sanitize pointer prior fclose()
selftests/bpf: Migrate test_xdp_vlan.sh into test_progs
selftests/bpf: test_xdp_vlan: Rename BPF sections
bpf: clarify a misleading verifier error message
selftests/bpf: Add selftest for attaching fexit to __noreturn functions
bpf: Reject attaching fexit/fmod_ret to __noreturn functions
bpf: Only fails the busy counter check in bpf_cgrp_storage_get if it creates storage
bpf: Make perf_event_read_output accessible in all program types.
bpftool: Using the right format specifiers
bpftool: Add -Wformat-signedness flag to detect format errors
selftests/bpf: Test freplace from user namespace
libbpf: Pass BPF token from find_prog_btf_id to BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID
bpf: Return prog btf_id without capable check
bpf: BPF token support for BPF_BTF_GET_FD_BY_ID
bpf, x86: Fix objtool warning for timed may_goto
bpf: Check map->record at the beginning of check_and_free_fields()
...
This commit adds the -Wformat-signedness compiler flag to detect and
prevent printf format errors, where signed or unsigned types are
mismatched with format specifiers. This helps to catch potential issues at
compile-time, ensuring that our code is more robust and reliable. With
this flag, the compiler will now warn about incorrect format strings, such
as using %d with unsigned types or %u with signed types.
Signed-off-by: Jiayuan Chen <jiayuan.chen@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20250311112809.81901-2-jiayuan.chen@linux.dev
When building selftests with CFLAGS set via env variable, the value of
CFLAGS is propagated into bpftool Makefile (called from selftests
Makefile). This makes the compilation fail as _GNU_SOURCE is defined two
times - once from selftests Makefile (by including lib.mk) and once from
bpftool Makefile (by calling `llvm-config --cflags`):
$ CFLAGS="" make -C tools/testing/selftests/bpf
[...]
CC /bpf-next/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/tools/build/bpftool/btf.o
<command-line>: error: "_GNU_SOURCE" redefined [-Werror]
<command-line>: note: this is the location of the previous definition
cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
[...]
Filter out -D_GNU_SOURCE from the result of `llvm-config --cflags` in
bpftool Makefile to prevent this error.
Signed-off-by: Viktor Malik <vmalik@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/acec3108b62d4df1436cda777e58e93e033ac7a7.1730449390.git.vmalik@redhat.com
When building either tools/bpf/bpftool, or tools/testing/selftests/hid,
(the same Makefile is used for these), clang generates many instances of
the following:
"clang: warning: -lLLVM-17: 'linker' input unused"
Quentin points out that the LLVM version is only required in $(LIBS),
not in $(CFLAGS), so the fix is to remove it from CFLAGS.
Suggested-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240505230054.13813-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com
Bpftool's Makefile uses $(HOST_CFLAGS) to build the bootstrap version of
bpftool, in order to pick the flags for the host (where we run the
bootstrap version) and not for the target system (where we plan to run
the full bpftool binary). But we pass too much information through this
variable.
In particular, we set HOST_CFLAGS by copying most of the $(CFLAGS); but
we do this after the feature detection for bpftool, which means that
$(CFLAGS), hence $(HOST_CFLAGS), contain all macro definitions for using
the different optional features. For example, -DHAVE_LLVM_SUPPORT may be
passed to the $(HOST_CFLAGS), even though the LLVM disassembler is not
used in the bootstrap version, and the related library may even be
missing for the host architecture.
A similar thing happens with the $(LDFLAGS), that we use unchanged for
linking the bootstrap version even though they may contains flags to
link against additional libraries.
To address the $(HOST_CFLAGS) issue, we move the definition of
$(HOST_CFLAGS) earlier in the Makefile, before the $(CFLAGS) update
resulting from the feature probing - none of which being relevant to the
bootstrap version. To clean up the $(LDFLAGS) for the bootstrap version,
we introduce a dedicated $(HOST_LDFLAGS) variable that we base on
$(LDFLAGS), before the feature probing as well.
On my setup, the following macro and libraries are removed from the
compiler invocation to build bpftool after this patch:
-DUSE_LIBCAP
-DHAVE_LLVM_SUPPORT
-I/usr/lib/llvm-17/include
-D_GNU_SOURCE
-D__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS
-D__STDC_FORMAT_MACROS
-D__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS
-lLLVM-17
-L/usr/lib/llvm-17/lib
Another advantage of cleaning up these flags is that displaying
available features with "bpftool version" becomes more accurate for the
bootstrap bpftool, and no longer reflects the features detected (and
available only) for the final binary.
Cc: Jean-Philippe Brucker <jean-philippe@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20240320014103.45641-1-qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Commit d510296d33 ("bpftool: Use syscall/loader program in "prog load"
and "gen skeleton" command.") added new files to the list of objects to
compile in order to build the bootstrap version of bpftool. As far as I
can tell, these objects are unnecessary and were added by mistake; maybe
a draft version intended to add support for loading loader programs from
the bootstrap version. Anyway, we can remove these object files from the
list to make the bootstrap bpftool binary a tad smaller and faster to
build.
Fixes: d510296d33 ("bpftool: Use syscall/loader program in "prog load" and "gen skeleton" command.")
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Message-ID: <20240320013457.44808-1-qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
When the clang toolchain has stack protection enabled in order to be
consistent with gcc - which just happens to be the case on Gentoo -
the bpftool build fails:
[...]
clang \
-I. \
-I/tmp/portage/dev-util/bpftool-6.0.12/work/linux-6.0/tools/include/uapi/ \
-I/tmp/portage/dev-util/bpftool-6.0.12/work/linux-6.0/tools/bpf/bpftool/bootstrap/libbpf/include \
-g -O2 -Wall -target bpf -c skeleton/pid_iter.bpf.c -o pid_iter.bpf.o
clang \
-I. \
-I/tmp/portage/dev-util/bpftool-6.0.12/work/linux-6.0/tools/include/uapi/ \
-I/tmp/portage/dev-util/bpftool-6.0.12/work/linux-6.0/tools/bpf/bpftool/bootstrap/libbpf/include \
-g -O2 -Wall -target bpf -c skeleton/profiler.bpf.c -o profiler.bpf.o
skeleton/profiler.bpf.c:40:14: error: A call to built-in function '__stack_chk_fail' is not supported.
int BPF_PROG(fentry_XXX)
^
skeleton/profiler.bpf.c:94:14: error: A call to built-in function '__stack_chk_fail' is not supported.
int BPF_PROG(fexit_XXX)
^
2 errors generated.
[...]
Since stack-protector makes no sense for the BPF bits just unconditionally
disable it.
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/890638
Signed-off-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/74cd9d2e-6052-312a-241e-2b514a75c92c@applied-asynchrony.com
When passing compiler variables like CC=$(HOSTCC) to a submake
we must ensure the variable is quoted in order to handle cases
where $(HOSTCC) may be multiple binaries.
For example when using ccache $HOSTCC may be:
"/usr/bin/ccache /usr/bin/gcc"
If we pass CC without quotes like CC=$(HOSTCC) only the first
"/usr/bin/ccache" part will be assigned to the CC variable which
will cause an error due to dropping the "/usr/bin/gcc" part of
the variable in the submake invocation.
This fixes errors such as:
/usr/bin/ccache: invalid option -- 'd'
Signed-off-by: James Hilliard <james.hilliard1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230110014504.3120711-1-james.hilliard1@gmail.com
Since the commit eb9d1acf63 ("bpftool: Add LLVM as default library for
disassembling JIT-ed programs") we might link the bpftool program with the
libllvm library. This works fine when a shared libllvm library is available,
but fails if we want to link bpftool with a statically built LLVM:
[...]
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(CrashRecoveryContext.cpp.o): in function `llvm::CrashRecoveryContextCleanup::~CrashRecoveryContextCleanup()':
CrashRecoveryContext.cpp:(.text._ZN4llvm27CrashRecoveryContextCleanupD0Ev+0x17): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*, unsigned long)'
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libLLVMSupport.a(CrashRecoveryContext.cpp.o): in function `llvm::CrashRecoveryContext::~CrashRecoveryContext()':
CrashRecoveryContext.cpp:(.text._ZN4llvm20CrashRecoveryContextD2Ev+0xc8): undefined reference to `operator delete(void*, unsigned long)'
[...]
So in the case of static libllvm we need to explicitly link bpftool with
required libraries, namely, libstdc++ and those provided by the `llvm-config
--system-libs` command. We can distinguish between the shared and static cases
by using the `llvm-config --shared-mode` command.
Fixes: eb9d1acf63 ("bpftool: Add LLVM as default library for disassembling JIT-ed programs")
Signed-off-by: Anton Protopopov <aspsk@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20221222102627.1643709-1-aspsk@isovalent.com
To disassemble instructions for JIT-ed programs, bpftool has relied on
the libbfd library. This has been problematic in the past: libbfd's
interface is not meant to be stable and has changed several times. For
building bpftool, we have to detect how the libbfd version on the system
behaves, which is why we have to handle features disassembler-four-args
and disassembler-init-styled in the Makefile. When it comes to shipping
bpftool, this has also caused issues with several distribution
maintainers unwilling to support the feature (see for example Debian's
page for binutils-dev, which ships libbfd: "Note that building Debian
packages which depend on the shared libbfd is Not Allowed." [0]).
For these reasons, we add support for LLVM as an alternative to libbfd
for disassembling instructions of JIT-ed programs. Thanks to the
preparation work in the previous commits, it's easy to add the library
by passing the relevant compilation options in the Makefile, and by
adding the functions for setting up the LLVM disassembler in file
jit_disasm.c.
The LLVM disassembler requires the LLVM development package (usually
llvm-dev or llvm-devel).
The expectation is that the interface for this disassembler will be more
stable. There is a note in LLVM's Developer Policy [1] stating that the
stability for the C API is "best effort" and not guaranteed, but at
least there is some effort to keep compatibility when possible (which
hasn't really been the case for libbfd so far). Furthermore, the Debian
page for the related LLVM package does not caution against linking to
the lib, as binutils-dev page does.
Naturally, the display of disassembled instructions comes with a few
minor differences. Here is a sample output with libbfd (already
supported before this patch):
# bpftool prog dump jited id 56
bpf_prog_6deef7357e7b4530:
0: nopl 0x0(%rax,%rax,1)
5: xchg %ax,%ax
7: push %rbp
8: mov %rsp,%rbp
b: push %rbx
c: push %r13
e: push %r14
10: mov %rdi,%rbx
13: movzwq 0xb4(%rbx),%r13
1b: xor %r14d,%r14d
1e: or $0x2,%r14d
22: mov $0x1,%eax
27: cmp $0x2,%r14
2b: jne 0x000000000000002f
2d: xor %eax,%eax
2f: pop %r14
31: pop %r13
33: pop %rbx
34: leave
35: ret
LLVM supports several variants that we could set when initialising the
disassembler, for example with:
LLVMSetDisasmOptions(*ctx,
LLVMDisassembler_Option_AsmPrinterVariant);
but the default printer is used for now. Here is the output with LLVM:
# bpftool prog dump jited id 56
bpf_prog_6deef7357e7b4530:
0: nopl (%rax,%rax)
5: nop
7: pushq %rbp
8: movq %rsp, %rbp
b: pushq %rbx
c: pushq %r13
e: pushq %r14
10: movq %rdi, %rbx
13: movzwq 180(%rbx), %r13
1b: xorl %r14d, %r14d
1e: orl $2, %r14d
22: movl $1, %eax
27: cmpq $2, %r14
2b: jne 0x2f
2d: xorl %eax, %eax
2f: popq %r14
31: popq %r13
33: popq %rbx
34: leave
35: retq
The LLVM disassembler comes as the default choice, with libbfd as a
fall-back.
Of course, we could replace libbfd entirely and avoid supporting two
different libraries. One reason for keeping libbfd is that, right now,
it works well, we have all we need in terms of features detection in the
Makefile, so it provides a fallback for disassembling JIT-ed programs if
libbfd is installed but LLVM is not. The other motivation is that libbfd
supports nfp instruction for Netronome's SmartNICs and can be used to
disassemble offloaded programs, something that LLVM cannot do. If
libbfd's interface breaks again in the future, we might reconsider
keeping support for it.
[0] https://packages.debian.org/buster/binutils-dev
[1] https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#c-api-changes
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Tested-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@corigine.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221025150329.97371-7-quentin@isovalent.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Bpftool uses libbfd for disassembling JIT-ed programs. But the feature
is optional, and the tool can be compiled without libbfd support. The
Makefile sets the relevant variables accordingly. It also sets variables
related to libbfd's interface, given that it has changed over time.
Group all those libbfd-related definitions so that it's easier to
understand what we are testing for, and only use variables related to
libbfd's interface if we need libbfd in the first place.
In addition to make the Makefile clearer, grouping the definitions
related to disassembling JIT-ed programs will help support alternatives
to libbfd.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Tested-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@corigine.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221025150329.97371-5-quentin@isovalent.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Pull perf tools updates from Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
- Introduce 'perf lock contention' subtool, using new lock contention
tracepoints and using BPF for in kernel aggregation and then
userspace processing using the perf tooling infrastructure for
resolving symbols, target specification, etc.
Since the new lock contention tracepoints don't provide lock names,
get up to 8 stack traces and display the first non-lock function
symbol name as a caller:
$ perf lock report -F acquired,contended,avg_wait,wait_total
Name acquired contended avg wait total wait
update_blocked_a... 40 40 3.61 us 144.45 us
kernfs_fop_open+... 5 5 3.64 us 18.18 us
_nohz_idle_balance 3 3 2.65 us 7.95 us
tick_do_update_j... 1 1 6.04 us 6.04 us
ep_scan_ready_list 1 1 3.93 us 3.93 us
Supports the usual 'perf record' + 'perf report' workflow as well as
a BCC/bpftrace like mode where you start the tool and then press
control+C to get results:
$ sudo perf lock contention -b
^C
contended total wait max wait avg wait type caller
42 192.67 us 13.64 us 4.59 us spinlock queue_work_on+0x20
23 85.54 us 10.28 us 3.72 us spinlock worker_thread+0x14a
6 13.92 us 6.51 us 2.32 us mutex kernfs_iop_permission+0x30
3 11.59 us 10.04 us 3.86 us mutex kernfs_dop_revalidate+0x3c
1 7.52 us 7.52 us 7.52 us spinlock kthread+0x115
1 7.24 us 7.24 us 7.24 us rwlock:W sys_epoll_wait+0x148
2 7.08 us 3.99 us 3.54 us spinlock delayed_work_timer_fn+0x1b
1 6.41 us 6.41 us 6.41 us spinlock idle_balance+0xa06
2 2.50 us 1.83 us 1.25 us mutex kernfs_iop_lookup+0x2f
1 1.71 us 1.71 us 1.71 us mutex kernfs_iop_getattr+0x2c
...
- Add new 'perf kwork' tool to trace time properties of kernel work
(such as softirq, and workqueue), uses eBPF skeletons to collect info
in kernel space, aggregating data that then gets processed by the
userspace tool, e.g.:
# perf kwork report
Kwork Name | Cpu | Total Runtime | Count | Max runtime | Max runtime start | Max runtime end |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
nvme0q5:130 | 004 | 1.101 ms | 49 | 0.051 ms | 26035.056403 s | 26035.056455 s |
amdgpu:162 | 002 | 0.176 ms | 9 | 0.046 ms | 26035.268020 s | 26035.268066 s |
nvme0q24:149 | 023 | 0.161 ms | 55 | 0.009 ms | 26035.655280 s | 26035.655288 s |
nvme0q20:145 | 019 | 0.090 ms | 33 | 0.014 ms | 26035.939018 s | 26035.939032 s |
nvme0q31:156 | 030 | 0.075 ms | 21 | 0.010 ms | 26035.052237 s | 26035.052247 s |
nvme0q8:133 | 007 | 0.062 ms | 12 | 0.021 ms | 26035.416840 s | 26035.416861 s |
nvme0q6:131 | 005 | 0.054 ms | 22 | 0.010 ms | 26035.199919 s | 26035.199929 s |
nvme0q19:144 | 018 | 0.052 ms | 14 | 0.010 ms | 26035.110615 s | 26035.110625 s |
nvme0q7:132 | 006 | 0.049 ms | 13 | 0.007 ms | 26035.125180 s | 26035.125187 s |
nvme0q18:143 | 017 | 0.033 ms | 14 | 0.007 ms | 26035.169698 s | 26035.169705 s |
nvme0q17:142 | 016 | 0.013 ms | 1 | 0.013 ms | 26035.565147 s | 26035.565160 s |
enp5s0-rx-0:164 | 006 | 0.004 ms | 4 | 0.002 ms | 26035.928882 s | 26035.928884 s |
enp5s0-tx-0:166 | 008 | 0.003 ms | 3 | 0.002 ms | 26035.870923 s | 26035.870925 s |
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
See commit log messages for more examples with extra options to limit
the events time window, etc.
- Add support for new AMD IBS (Instruction Based Sampling) features:
With the DataSrc extensions, the source of data can be decoded among:
- Local L3 or other L1/L2 in CCX.
- A peer cache in a near CCX.
- Data returned from DRAM.
- A peer cache in a far CCX.
- DRAM address map with "long latency" bit set.
- Data returned from MMIO/Config/PCI/APIC.
- Extension Memory (S-Link, GenZ, etc - identified by the CS target
and/or address map at DF's choice).
- Peer Agent Memory.
- Support hardware tracing with Intel PT on guest machines, combining
the traces with the ones in the host machine.
- Add a "-m" option to 'perf buildid-list' to show kernel and modules
build-ids, to display all of the information needed to do external
symbolization of kernel stack traces, such as those collected by
bpf_get_stackid().
- Add arch TSC frequency information to perf.data file headers.
- Handle changes in the binutils disassembler function signatures in
perf, bpftool and bpf_jit_disasm (Acked by the bpftool maintainer).
- Fix building the perf perl binding with the newest gcc in distros
such as fedora rawhide, where some new warnings were breaking the
build as perf uses -Werror.
- Add 'perf test' entry for branch stack sampling.
- Add ARM SPE system wide 'perf test' entry.
- Add user space counter reading tests to 'perf test'.
- Build with python3 by default, if available.
- Add python converter script for the vendor JSON event files.
- Update vendor JSON files for most Intel cores.
- Add vendor JSON File for Intel meteorlake.
- Add Arm Cortex-A78C and X1C JSON vendor event files.
- Add workaround to symbol address reading from ELF files without phdr,
falling back to the previoous equation.
- Convert legacy map definition to BTF-defined in the perf BPF script
test.
- Rework prologue generation code to stop using libbpf deprecated APIs.
- Add default hybrid events for 'perf stat' on x86.
- Add topdown metrics in the default 'perf stat' on the hybrid machines
(big/little cores).
- Prefer sampled CPU when exporting JSON in 'perf data convert'
- Fix ('perf stat CSV output linter') and ("Check branch stack
sampling") 'perf test' entries on s390.
* tag 'perf-tools-for-v6.0-2022-08-04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/acme/linux: (169 commits)
perf stat: Refactor __run_perf_stat() common code
perf lock: Print the number of lost entries for BPF
perf lock: Add --map-nr-entries option
perf lock: Introduce struct lock_contention
perf scripting python: Do not build fail on deprecation warnings
genelf: Use HAVE_LIBCRYPTO_SUPPORT, not the never defined HAVE_LIBCRYPTO
perf build: Suppress openssl v3 deprecation warnings in libcrypto feature test
perf parse-events: Break out tracepoint and printing
perf parse-events: Don't #define YY_EXTRA_TYPE
tools bpftool: Don't display disassembler-four-args feature test
tools bpftool: Fix compilation error with new binutils
tools bpf_jit_disasm: Don't display disassembler-four-args feature test
tools bpf_jit_disasm: Fix compilation error with new binutils
tools perf: Fix compilation error with new binutils
tools include: add dis-asm-compat.h to handle version differences
tools build: Don't display disassembler-four-args feature test
tools build: Add feature test for init_disassemble_info API changes
perf test: Add ARM SPE system wide test
perf tools: Rework prologue generation code
perf bpf: Convert legacy map definition to BTF-defined
...
