perf data: Add description of header HEADER_BPF_PROG_INFO and HEADER_BPF_BTF
authorSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Tue, 21 May 2019 06:44:06 +0000 (23:44 -0700)
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Wed, 5 Jun 2019 12:47:52 +0000 (09:47 -0300)
This patch addes description of HEADER_BPF_PROG_INFO and HEADER_BPF_BTF to
perf.data-file-format.txt.

Requested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Fixes: 606f972b1361 ("perf bpf: Save bpf_prog_info information as headers to perf.data")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190521064406.2498925-1-songliubraving@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
tools/perf/Documentation/perf.data-file-format.txt

index 6967e9b02be551f81aea451399fbc107728120bb..022bb8b1c84aedcfdf4c8da64a752923d6c392e7 100644 (file)
@@ -272,6 +272,22 @@ struct {
 
 Two uint64_t for the time of first sample and the time of last sample.
 
+        HEADER_BPF_PROG_INFO = 25,
+
+struct bpf_prog_info_linear, which contains detailed information about
+a BPF program, including type, id, tag, jited/xlated instructions, etc.
+
+        HEADER_BPF_BTF = 26,
+
+Contains BPF Type Format (BTF). For more information about BTF, please
+refer to Documentation/bpf/btf.rst.
+
+struct {
+       u32     id;
+       u32     data_size;
+       char    data[];
+};
+
         HEADER_COMPRESSED = 27,
 
 struct {