Re: [RFC perf,bpf 5/5] perf util: generate bpf_prog_info_event for short living bpf programs

[Song Liu]

> On Nov 7, 2018, at 10:12 AM, David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Yes, we do plan to include these information in other perf commands, 
including perf-script, perf-top, perf-annotate, etc. 

Thanks,
Song