The kernel prevents potential unwinder warnings and crashes by blocking
BPF program with bpf_get_[stack|stackid] on perf_event without
PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN, or with exclude_callchain_[kernel|user]. Print a
hint message in libbpf to help the user debug such issues.
Signed-off-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx>
---
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index 846164c79df1c..484e50d49a4cf 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -7833,6 +7833,9 @@ struct bpf_link *bpf_program__attach_perf_event(struct bpf_program *prog,
pr_warn("program '%s': failed to attach to pfd %d: %s\n",
bpf_program__title(prog, false), pfd,
libbpf_strerror_r(err, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg)));
+ if (err == -EPROTO)
+ pr_warn("program '%s': try add PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN to or remove exclude_callchain_[kernel|user] from pfd %d\n",
+ bpf_program__title(prog, false), pfd);
return ERR_PTR(err);
}
if (ioctl(pfd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0) < 0) {
--
2.24.1
