There is no way to get the nmissed count from kprobes that are created using the perf API. The previous commits added read_format support for this count. Enable it in this commit. Signed-off-by: Daniel Xu <dxu@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c index 1ca0acd1d823..43f45f6d914d 100644 --- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c +++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c @@ -5031,7 +5031,7 @@ static int determine_uprobe_retprobe_bit(void) } static int perf_event_open_probe(bool uprobe, bool retprobe, const char *name, - uint64_t offset, int pid) + uint64_t offset, int pid, uint64_t read_format) { struct perf_event_attr attr = {}; char errmsg[STRERR_BUFSIZE]; @@ -5060,6 +5060,7 @@ static int perf_event_open_probe(bool uprobe, bool retprobe, const char *name, } attr.size = sizeof(attr); attr.type = type; + attr.read_format = read_format; attr.config1 = ptr_to_u64(name); /* kprobe_func or uprobe_path */ attr.config2 = offset; /* kprobe_addr or probe_offset */ @@ -5087,7 +5088,8 @@ struct bpf_link *bpf_program__attach_kprobe(struct bpf_program *prog, int pfd, err; pfd = perf_event_open_probe(false /* uprobe */, retprobe, func_name, - 0 /* offset */, -1 /* pid */); + 0 /* offset */, -1 /* pid */, + PERF_FORMAT_LOST /* read_format */); if (pfd < 0) { pr_warning("program '%s': failed to create %s '%s' perf event: %s\n", bpf_program__title(prog, false), @@ -5118,7 +5120,8 @@ struct bpf_link *bpf_program__attach_uprobe(struct bpf_program *prog, int pfd, err; pfd = perf_event_open_probe(true /* uprobe */, retprobe, - binary_path, func_offset, pid); + binary_path, func_offset, pid, + 0 /* read_format */); if (pfd < 0) { pr_warning("program '%s': failed to create %s '%s:0x%zx' perf event: %s\n", bpf_program__title(prog, false), -- 2.21.0