Re: [PATCH v8 perf,bpf 01/15] perf, bpf: consider events with attr.bpf_event as side-band events

From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Date: Mon Mar 11 2019 - 16:29:10 EST


Em Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 12:55:41PM -0700, Song Liu escreveu:
> Events with bpf_event should be considered as side-band event, as they
> carry information about BPF programs.
>
> Fixes: 6ee52e2a3fe4 ("perf, bpf: Introduce PERF_RECORD_BPF_EVENT")
> Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>

This patch is also already merged upstream, its in torvalds/master.

- Arnaldo

> ---
> kernel/events/core.c | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
> index f1a26c8f15b3..4a59cb9b29ee 100644
> --- a/kernel/events/core.c
> +++ b/kernel/events/core.c
> @@ -4238,7 +4238,8 @@ static bool is_sb_event(struct perf_event *event)
> if (attr->mmap || attr->mmap_data || attr->mmap2 ||
> attr->comm || attr->comm_exec ||
> attr->task || attr->ksymbol ||
> - attr->context_switch)
> + attr->context_switch ||
> + attr->bpf_event)
> return true;
> return false;
> }
> --
> 2.17.1