Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] perf, bpf: add support for bpf in sw/hw perf_events

From: Brendan Gregg
Date: Mon Aug 29 2016 - 22:28:11 EST


On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 07:31:18PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > Hi Peter, Dave,
> >
> > this patch set is a follow up to the discussion:
> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/8/4/304
> > It turned out to be simpler than what we discussed.
> >
> > Patches 1-3 is a bpf-side prep for the main patch 4
> > that adds bpf program as an overflow_handler to sw and hw perf_events.
> > Peter, please review.
> >
> > Patches 5 and 6 are tests/examples from myself and Brendan.
>
> Brendan, so this works for you without extra hacks required?

Yes, thanks for checking, I've done both IP and stack sampling so far with it.

Brendan