[PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/4] bpf: introduce bpf_get_task_stack()

From: Song Liu
Date: Thu Jun 25 2020 - 20:13:57 EST


This set introduces a new helper bpf_get_task_stack(). The primary use case
is to dump all /proc/*/stack to seq_file via bpf_iter__task.

A few different approaches have been explored and compared:

1. A simple wrapper around stack_trace_save_tsk(), as v1 [1].

This approach introduces new syntax, which is different to existing
helper bpf_get_stack(). Therefore, this is not ideal.

2. Extend get_perf_callchain() to support "task" as argument.

This approach reuses most of bpf_get_stack(). However, extending
get_perf_callchain() requires non-trivial changes to architecture
specific code. Which is error prone.

3. Current (v2) approach, leverages most of existing bpf_get_stack(), and
uses stack_trace_save_tsk() to handle architecture specific logic.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200623070802.2310018-1-songliubraving@xxxxxx/

Changes v1 => v2:
1. Reuse most of bpf_get_stack() logic. (Andrii)
2. Fix unsigned long vs. u64 mismatch for 32-bit systems. (Yonghong)
3. Add %pB support in bpf_trace_printk(). (Daniel)
4. Fix buffer size to bytes.

Song Liu (4):
perf: export get/put_chain_entry()
bpf: introduce helper bpf_get_task_stak()
bpf: allow %pB in bpf_seq_printf() and bpf_trace_printk()
selftests/bpf: add bpf_iter test with bpf_get_task_stack_trace()

include/linux/bpf.h | 1 +
include/linux/perf_event.h | 2 +
include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 35 +++++++-
kernel/bpf/stackmap.c | 79 ++++++++++++++++++-
kernel/events/callchain.c | 4 +-
kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c | 14 +++-
scripts/bpf_helpers_doc.py | 2 +
tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 35 +++++++-
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/bpf_iter.c | 17 ++++
.../selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_iter_task_stack.c | 60 ++++++++++++++
10 files changed, 239 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/bpf_iter_task_stack.c

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