linux/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-perf.rst
Quentin Monnet 18841da981 tools: bpftool: Automate generation for "SEE ALSO" sections in man pages
The "SEE ALSO" sections of bpftool's manual pages refer to bpf(2),
bpf-helpers(7), then all existing bpftool man pages (save the current
one).

This leads to nearly-identical lists being duplicated in all manual
pages. Ideally, when a new page is created, all lists should be updated
accordingly, but this has led to omissions and inconsistencies multiple
times in the past.

Let's take it out of the RST files and generate the "SEE ALSO" sections
automatically in the Makefile when generating the man pages. The lists
are not really useful in the RST anyway because all other pages are
available in the same directory.

v3:
- Fix conflict with a previous patchset that introduced RST2MAN_OPTS
  variable passed to rst2man.

v2:
- Use "echo -n" instead of "printf" in Makefile, to avoid any risk of
  passing a format string directly to the command.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200910203935.25304-1-quentin@isovalent.com
2020-09-10 20:10:45 -07:00

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bpftool-perf
================
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
tool for inspection of perf related bpf prog attachments
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:Manual section: 8
SYNOPSIS
========
**bpftool** [*OPTIONS*] **perf** *COMMAND*
*OPTIONS* := { [{ **-j** | **--json** }] [{ **-p** | **--pretty** }] }
*COMMANDS* :=
{ **show** | **list** | **help** }
PERF COMMANDS
=============
| **bpftool** **perf** { **show** | **list** }
| **bpftool** **perf help**
DESCRIPTION
===========
**bpftool perf { show | list }**
List all raw_tracepoint, tracepoint, kprobe attachment in the system.
Output will start with process id and file descriptor in that process,
followed by bpf program id, attachment information, and attachment point.
The attachment point for raw_tracepoint/tracepoint is the trace probe name.
The attachment point for k[ret]probe is either symbol name and offset,
or a kernel virtual address.
The attachment point for u[ret]probe is the file name and the file offset.
**bpftool perf help**
Print short help message.
OPTIONS
=======
.. include:: common_options.rst
EXAMPLES
========
| **# bpftool perf**
::
pid 21711 fd 5: prog_id 5 kprobe func __x64_sys_write offset 0
pid 21765 fd 5: prog_id 7 kretprobe func __x64_sys_nanosleep offset 0
pid 21767 fd 5: prog_id 8 tracepoint sys_enter_nanosleep
pid 21800 fd 5: prog_id 9 uprobe filename /home/yhs/a.out offset 1159
|
| **# bpftool -j perf**
::
[{"pid":21711,"fd":5,"prog_id":5,"fd_type":"kprobe","func":"__x64_sys_write","offset":0}, \
{"pid":21765,"fd":5,"prog_id":7,"fd_type":"kretprobe","func":"__x64_sys_nanosleep","offset":0}, \
{"pid":21767,"fd":5,"prog_id":8,"fd_type":"tracepoint","tracepoint":"sys_enter_nanosleep"}, \
{"pid":21800,"fd":5,"prog_id":9,"fd_type":"uprobe","filename":"/home/yhs/a.out","offset":1159}]