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BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERF_EVENT_ARRAY map is often used to send data from BPF program to user space for additional processing. libbpf already has very low-level API to read single CPU perf buffer, bpf_perf_event_read_simple(), but it's hard to use and requires a lot of code to set everything up. This patch adds perf_buffer abstraction on top of it, abstracting setting up and polling per-CPU logic into simple and convenient API, similar to what BCC provides. perf_buffer__new() sets up per-CPU ring buffers and updates corresponding BPF map entries. It accepts two user-provided callbacks: one for handling raw samples and one for get notifications of lost samples due to buffer overflow. perf_buffer__new_raw() is similar, but provides more control over how perf events are set up (by accepting user-provided perf_event_attr), how they are handled (perf_event_header pointer is passed directly to user-provided callback), and on which CPUs ring buffers are created (it's possible to provide a list of CPUs and corresponding map keys to update). This API allows advanced users fuller control. perf_buffer__poll() is used to fetch ring buffer data across all CPUs, utilizing epoll instance. perf_buffer__free() does corresponding clean up and unsets FDs from BPF map. All APIs are not thread-safe. User should ensure proper locking/coordination if used in multi-threaded set up. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
This is a mirror of bpf-next linux tree's
tools/lib/bpf directory plus its supporting header files.
The following files will by sync'ed with bpf-next repo:
src/<->bpf-next/tools/lib/bpf/include/uapi/linux/bpf_common.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf_common.hinclude/uapi/linux/bpf.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.hinclude/uapi/linux/btf.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.hinclude/uapi/linux/if_link.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_link.hinclude/uapi/linux/if_xdp.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_xdp.hinclude/uapi/linux/netlink.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/netlink.hinclude/tools/libc_compat.h<->bpf-next/tools/include/tools/libc_compat.h
Other header files at this repo (include/linux/*.h) are reduced versions of
their counterpart files at bpf-next's tools/include/linux/*.h to make compilation
successful.
Build 
libelf is an internal dependency of libbpf and thus it is required to link
against and must be installed on the system for applications to work.
pkg-config is used by default to find libelf, and the program called can be
overridden with PKG_CONFIG.
If using pkg-config at build time is not desired, it can be disabled by setting
NO_PKG_CONFIG=1 when calling make.
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so:
$ cd src
$ make
To build only static libbpf.a library in directory build/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a staging directory root/:
$ cd src
$ mkdir build root
$ BUILD_STATIC_ONLY=y OBJDIR=build DESTDIR=root make install
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so against a custom libelf dependency installed in /build/root/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a build directory /build/root/:
$ cd src
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/build/root/lib64/pkgconfig DESTDIR=/build/root make install
To integrate libbpf into a project which uses Meson building system define
[wrap-git] file in subprojects folder.
To add libbpf dependency to the parent parent project, e.g. for
libbpf_static_dep:
libbpf_obj = subproject('libbpf', required : true)
libbpf_static_dep = libbpf_proj.get_variable('libbpf_static_dep')
To validate changes to meson.build
$ python3 meson.py build
$ ninja -C build/
To install headers, libs and pkgconfig
$ cd build
$ ninja install