BPF Compiler Collection (BCC)
BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and
manipulation programs, and includes several useful tools and examples.
It makes use of extended BPF (Berkeley Packet Filters), formally known
as eBPF, a new feature that was first added to Linux 3.15. Much of
what BCC uses requires Linux 4.1 and above.
eBPF was described by Ingo Molnár as:
One of the more interesting features in this cycle is the ability to
attach eBPF programs (user-defined, sandboxed bytecode executed by the
kernel) to kprobes. This allows user-defined instrumentation on a live
kernel image that can never crash, hang or interfere with the kernel
negatively.
BCC makes BPF programs easier to write, with kernel instrumentation in
C (and includes a C wrapper around LLVM), and front-ends in Python and
lua. It is suited for many tasks, including performance analysis and
network traffic control.
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