Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] perf: generate events for BPF metadata

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Sat Jun 21 2025 - 14:02:24 EST


On Thu, 12 Jun 2025 12:49:34 -0700, Blake Jones wrote:
> Commit ffa915f46193 ("Merge branch 'bpf_metadata'"), from September 2020,
> added support to the kernel, libbpf, and bpftool to treat read-only BPF
> variables that have names starting with 'bpf_metadata_' specially. This
> patch series updates perf to handle these variables similarly, allowing a
> perf.data file to capture relevant information about BPF programs on the
> system being profiled.
>
> [...]
Applied to perf-tools-next, thanks!

Best regards,
Namhyung