linux/include/uapi
Alexei Starovoitov 0515e5999a bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type
Introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT programs that can be attached to
HW and SW perf events (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE
correspondingly in uapi/linux/perf_event.h)

The program visible context meta structure is
struct bpf_perf_event_data {
    struct pt_regs regs;
     __u64 sample_period;
};
which is accessible directly from the program:
int bpf_prog(struct bpf_perf_event_data *ctx)
{
  ... ctx->sample_period ...
  ... ctx->regs.ip ...
}

The bpf verifier rewrites the accesses into kernel internal
struct bpf_perf_event_data_kern which allows changing
struct perf_sample_data without affecting bpf programs.
New fields can be added to the end of struct bpf_perf_event_data
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-09-02 10:46:44 -07:00
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asm-generic asm-generic: Drop renameat syscall from default list 2016-05-05 00:42:21 +02:00
drm Merge tag 'topic/drm-misc-2016-07-22' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel into drm-next 2016-07-27 10:33:08 +10:00
linux bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type 2016-09-02 10:46:44 -07:00
misc cxl: Use fixed width predefined types in data structure. 2016-08-09 16:52:01 +10:00
mtd mtd: kill the nand_ecclayout struct 2016-05-05 23:51:51 +02:00
rdma Second round of merge items for 4.8 2016-08-04 20:26:31 -04:00
scsi
sound ALSA: uapi: Add three missing header files to Kbuild file 2016-05-31 17:33:32 +02:00
video
xen xen/evtchn: add IOCTL_EVTCHN_RESTRICT 2016-07-25 10:59:31 +01:00
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