Re: [patch 03/11] perf_event_open.2: 4.1 PERF_EVENT_IOC_SET_BPF support

From: Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
Date: Wed Oct 14 2015 - 02:28:00 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> tracing, perf: Implement BPF programs attached to kprobes
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1427312966-8434-4-git-send-email-ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> 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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