Re: [PATCH 11/13] perf bpf: Add helper header files

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Mar 12 2018 - 15:06:32 EST


Em Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 11:44:57AM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 10:43:11AM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf-userapi.h b/tools/perf/util/bpf-userapi.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..63f2b4c13a5c
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf-userapi.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
> > +#ifndef __BPF_USERAPI_H
> > +#define __BPF_USERAPI_H
> > +
> > +enum {
> > + BPF_FUNC_USER_START = 10000,
> > + BPF_FUNC_USER_print = BPF_FUNC_USER_START,
> > + BPF_FUNC_USER_bpf_map_get_next_key,
> > + BPF_FUNC_USER_bpf_map_lookup_elem,
> > +};
> > +
> > +#endif /* __BPF_USERFUNCS_H */
> > diff --git a/tools/perf/util/bpf-userfuncs.h b/tools/perf/util/bpf-userfuncs.h
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 000000000000..e920420237ee
> > --- /dev/null
> > +++ b/tools/perf/util/bpf-userfuncs.h
> > @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
> > +#ifndef __BPF_USERFUNCS_H
> > +#define __BPF_USERFUNCS_H
> > +
> > +#include <bpf-userapi.h>
> > +
> > +static int (*bpfu_print)(const char *fmt, ...) =
> > + (void *) BPF_FUNC_USER_print;
> > +static int (*bpfu_map_get_next_key)(void *map, void *key, void *value) =
> > + (void *) BPF_FUNC_USER_bpf_map_get_next_key;
> > +static int (*bpfu_map_lookup_elem)(void *map, void *key, void *value) =
> > + (void *) BPF_FUNC_USER_bpf_map_lookup_elem;
> > +
> > +#define print(fmt, ...) \
> > +({ \
> > + char ____fmt[] = fmt; \
> > + bpfu_print(____fmt, ##__VA_ARGS__); \
> > +})
>
> since there is no verifier for this user space bpf interpreter
> there is no need to restrict what BEGIN/END progs can do and can call.
> llvm will happily compile any C code into bpf instructions.
> With little bit of elf magic it's possible to let it call any libc
> function instead of only 3 above.
> perf loader will see bpf_call into normal printf, memcpy, memcmp, etc
> then during the loading need to associate symbol with actual address
> of these functions inside perf binary and let call_cb do the call.
> I think this way begin/end will be much more powerful and useful.
> Potentially allowing some of the bcc scripts to be written this way.

Yeah, what is in perf right now, i.e. symbol resolution, rbtree, etc
provides a really nice lib for use in these scripts.

- Arnaldo