[PATCH v2 0/3] Add a tracepoint for BPF perf sampling

From: Brendan Gregg
Date: Tue Aug 02 2016 - 22:50:02 EST


This patchset adds a tracepoint for perf sampling, perf:perf_hrtimer, and
includes a complete example in samples/bpf for using it to frequency
count sampled instruction pointers in a BPF map.

Signed-off-by: Brendan Gregg <bgregg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes in v2:
- added samples/bpf/sampleip* example for perf:perf_hrtimer
- added bpf-output to perf script usage message

Brendan Gregg (3):
perf/core: Add a tracepoint for perf sampling
samples/bpf: Add a sampling BPF example
perf script: add bpf-output field to usage message

include/trace/events/perf.h | 29 +++++
kernel/events/core.c | 5 +
samples/bpf/Makefile | 4 +
samples/bpf/sampleip_kern.c | 48 ++++++++
samples/bpf/sampleip_user.c | 189 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/perf/Documentation/perf-script.txt | 4 +-
tools/perf/builtin-script.c | 2 +-
7 files changed, 278 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 include/trace/events/perf.h
create mode 100644 samples/bpf/sampleip_kern.c
create mode 100644 samples/bpf/sampleip_user.c

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