[PATCH v6 0/4] Introduce perf-stat -b for BPF programs

[Song Liu]

This set introduces perf-stat -b option to count events for BPF programs.
This is similar to bpftool-prog-profile. But perf-stat makes it much more
flexible.

Changes v5 => v6
  1. Update the name for bootstrap bpftool. (Jiri)

Changes v4 => v5:
  1. Add documentation. (Jiri)
  2. Silent make output for removing .bpf.o file. (Jiri)

Changes v3 => v4:
  1. Split changes in bpftool/Makefile to a separate patch
  2. Various small fixes. (Jiri)

Changes v2 => v3:
  1. Small fixes in Makefile.perf and bpf_counter.c (Jiri)
  2. Rebased on top of bpf-next. This is because 1/2 conflicts with some
     patches in bpftool/Makefile.

Changes PATCH v1 => PATCH v2:
  1. Various fixes in Makefiles. (Jiri)
  2. Fix an build warning/error with gcc-10. (Jiri)

Changes RFC v2 => PATCH v1:
  1. Support counting on multiple BPF programs.
  2. Add BPF handling to target__validate().
  3. Improve Makefile. (Jiri)

Changes RFC v1 => RFC v2:
  1. Use bootstrap version of bpftool. (Jiri)
  2. Set default to not building bpf skeletons. (Jiri)
  3. Remove util/bpf_skel/Makefile, keep all the logic in Makefile.perf.
     (Jiri)
  4. Remove dependency to vmlinux.h in the two skeletons. The goal here is
     to enable building perf without building kernel (vmlinux) first.
     Note: I also removed the logic that build vmlinux.h. We can add that
     back when we have to use it (to access big kernel structures).

Song Liu (4):
  bpftool: add Makefile target bootstrap
  perf: support build BPF skeletons with perf
  perf-stat: enable counting events for BPF programs
  perf-stat: add documentation for -b option

 tools/bpf/bpftool/Makefile                    |   2 +
 tools/build/Makefile.feature                  |   4 +-
 tools/perf/Documentation/perf-stat.txt        |  14 +
 tools/perf/Makefile.config                    |   9 +
 tools/perf/Makefile.perf                      |  49 ++-
 tools/perf/builtin-stat.c                     |  77 ++++-
 tools/perf/util/Build                         |   1 +
 tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.c                 | 296 ++++++++++++++++++
 tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.h                 |  72 +++++
 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/.gitignore           |   3 +
 .../util/bpf_skel/bpf_prog_profiler.bpf.c     |  93 ++++++
 tools/perf/util/evsel.c                       |   9 +
 tools/perf/util/evsel.h                       |   6 +
 tools/perf/util/stat-display.c                |   4 +-
 tools/perf/util/stat.c                        |   2 +-
 tools/perf/util/target.c                      |  34 +-
 tools/perf/util/target.h                      |  10 +
 tools/scripts/Makefile.include                |   1 +
 18 files changed, 666 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.c
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_counter.h
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/.gitignore
 create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/bpf_prog_profiler.bpf.c

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