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Ian Rogers 0698ac66e0 tools, bpftool: Remove two unused variables.
Avoid an unused variable warning.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20201027233646.3434896-2-irogers@google.com
2020-10-29 15:23:18 +01:00
Andrii Nakryiko 05aca6da3b tools/bpftool: Generalize BPF skeleton support and generate vmlinux.h
Adapt Makefile to support BPF skeleton generation beyond single profiler.bpf.c
case. Also add vmlinux.h generation and switch profiler.bpf.c to use it.

clang-bpf-global-var feature is extended and renamed to clang-bpf-co-re to
check for support of preserve_access_index attribute, which, together with BTF
for global variables, is the minimum requirement for modern BPF programs.

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200619231703.738941-7-andriin@fb.com
2020-06-22 17:01:48 -07:00
Andrii Nakryiko bb8dc2695a tools/bpftool: Relicense bpftool's BPF profiler prog as dual-license GPL/BSD
Relicense it to be compatible with the rest of bpftool files.

Suggested-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200619222024.519774-1-andriin@fb.com
2020-06-20 00:27:19 +02:00
Song Liu 47c09d6a9f bpftool: Introduce "prog profile" command
With fentry/fexit programs, it is possible to profile BPF program with
hardware counters. Introduce bpftool "prog profile", which measures key
metrics of a BPF program.

bpftool prog profile command creates per-cpu perf events. Then it attaches
fentry/fexit programs to the target BPF program. The fentry program saves
perf event value to a map. The fexit program reads the perf event again,
and calculates the difference, which is the instructions/cycles used by
the target program.

Example input and output:

  ./bpftool prog profile id 337 duration 3 cycles instructions llc_misses

        4228 run_cnt
     3403698 cycles                                              (84.08%)
     3525294 instructions   #  1.04 insn per cycle               (84.05%)
          13 llc_misses     #  3.69 LLC misses per million isns  (83.50%)

This command measures cycles and instructions for BPF program with id
337 for 3 seconds. The program has triggered 4228 times. The rest of the
output is similar to perf-stat. In this example, the counters were only
counting ~84% of the time because of time multiplexing of perf counters.

Note that, this approach measures cycles and instructions in very small
increments. So the fentry/fexit programs introduce noticeable errors to
the measurement results.

The fentry/fexit programs are generated with BPF skeletons. Therefore, we
build bpftool twice. The first time _bpftool is built without skeletons.
Then, _bpftool is used to generate the skeletons. The second time, bpftool
is built with skeletons.

Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200309173218.2739965-2-songliubraving@fb.com
2020-03-10 00:04:07 +01:00