Hi Song, On Tue, Aug 23, 2022 at 3:19 PM Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > On Aug 23, 2022, at 2:03 PM, Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > The helper is for BPF programs attached to perf_event in order to read > > event-specific raw data. I followed the convention of the > > bpf_read_branch_records() helper so that it can tell the size of > > record using BPF_F_GET_RAW_RECORD flag. > > > > The use case is to filter perf event samples based on the HW provided > > data which have more detailed information about the sample. > > > > Note that it only reads the first fragment of the raw record. But it > > seems mostly ok since all the existing PMU raw data have only single > > fragment and the multi-fragment records are only for BPF output attached > > to sockets. So unless it's used with such an extreme case, it'd work > > for most of tracing use cases. > > > > Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > I don't know how to test this. As the raw data is available on some > > hardware PMU only (e.g. AMD IBS). I tried a tracepoint event but it was > > rejected by the verifier. Actually it needs a bpf_perf_event_data > > context so that's not an option IIUC. > > Can we add a software event that generates raw data for testing? Ok, now I think that I can use a bpf-output sw event. It would need another BPF program to write data to the event and the test program can read it from BPF using this helper. :) Thanks, Namhyung
