On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 11:07:14AM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote: > eBPF tools like bcc-tools have hard time figuring out when features like > raw_tracepoint are supported in the kernel on which we are running. At > the moment a fragile mechanism of matching bpf_find_raw_tracepoint() > function in /proc/kallsyms is used to find out whether raw tracepoints > can be used or not. But when this function was renamed recently to > bpf_get_raw_tracepoint() the tool started to fail to use raw > tracepoints. > > To help in providing a more reliable way to detect features like > RAW_TRACEPOINT, add a new file in trace debugfs to export the supported > features. > > $cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/supported_features > RAW_TRACEPOINT > EXAMPLE_FEATURE_1 > EXAMPLE_FEATURE_2 > > Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@xxxxxxx> this type of attempts have been made in the past and we always rejected them. Please use 'bpftool' instead that detects numerous bpf related features including raw_tp. # bpftool feature probe|grep raw_tracepoint eBPF program_type raw_tracepoint is available
