Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] perf-stat: enable counting events for BPF programs

[Song Liu]

> On Dec 8, 2020, at 2:24 AM, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2020 at 01:36:57AM +0000, Song Liu wrote:
> 
> SNIP
> 
>>> 
>>> I'm still getting
>>> 
>>> [root@dell-r440-01 perf]# ./perf stat -b 38
>>> libbpf: elf: skipping unrecognized data section(9) .eh_frame
>>> libbpf: elf: skipping relo section(15) .rel.eh_frame for section(9) .eh_frame
>>> libbpf: XXX is not found in vmlinux BTF
>>> libbpf: failed to load object 'bpf_prog_profiler_bpf'
>>> libbpf: failed to load BPF skeleton 'bpf_prog_profiler_bpf': -2
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> with id 38 being:
>>> 
>>> 38: tracepoint  name sys_enter  tag 03418b72a610af75  gpl
>>>       loaded_at 2020-12-07T22:54:05+0100  uid 0
>>>       xlated 272B  jited 153B  memlock 4096B  map_ids 1
>>> 
>>> how is this supposed to work when there's XXX in the
>>> program's section? libbpf is trying to find XXX in
>>> kernel BTF and fails of course
>> 
>> I think this is because this program doesn't have BTF. The actual failed
>> function was bpf_program__set_attach_target(). So the error message above
>> should be "Failed to _open_ bpf skeleton". I will fix the error messages. 
> 
> ah right, it's bpftrace program, so there's no BTF loaded for the program
> I'll check if there's a way to add it, it'd be shame not to have this
> feature for bpftrace programs
> 
> there's no way around it, right? we need btf id of the program to attach
> fentry/fexit to it

Yes, we do need BTF here (in bpf_program__set_attach_target). 
> 
> I think we need to fail the function if there's error detected,
> and also check on the prog_name and fail if it's not found
> 
> plus change all those pr_debug to pr_err in bpf_program_profiler_load_one

I fixed these in the next version. 

Thanks,
Song