Re: [PATCH] MIPS: Enable some missed configs in loongson3_defconfig to support bpftrace

From: Thomas Bogendoerfer
Date: Wed Mar 10 2021 - 10:19:50 EST


On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 02:48:18PM +0800, Tiezhu Yang wrote:
> bpftrace is a high-level tracing language for Linux enhanced Berkeley
> Packet Filter (eBPF) available in recent Linux kernels (4.x). bpftrace
> uses LLVM as a backend to compile scripts to BPF-bytecode and makes use
> of BCC for interacting with the Linux BPF system, as well as existing
> Linux tracing capabilities: kernel dynamic tracing (kprobes), user-level
> dynamic tracing (uprobes), and tracepoints.
>
> According to Linux Kernel Requirements in bpftrace/INSTALL.md [1], the
> kernel needs to be built with the following options:
>
> CONFIG_BPF=y
> CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y
> CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y
> CONFIG_HAVE_EBPF_JIT=y
> CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y
> CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y
> CONFIG_FUNCTION_TRACER=y
> CONFIG_HAVE_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
> CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE=y
> CONFIG_HAVE_KPROBES=y
> CONFIG_KPROBES=y
> CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=y
> CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES=y
> CONFIG_UPROBES=y
> CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
>
> So enable some missed configs in loongson3_defconfig to make sure
> the above configs are set after make loongson3_defconfig.
>
> [1] https://github.com/iovisor/bpftrace/blob/master/INSTALL.md
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/mips/configs/loongson3_defconfig | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

applied to mips-next.

Thomas.

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