[Buildroot] [PATCHv6 4/5] package/bpftrace: new package

Qais Yousef qais.yousef at arm.com
Wed May 19 18:07:21 UTC 2021


On 04/10/21 12:15, Romain Naour wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le 06/04/2021 à 13:54, Qais Yousef a écrit :
> > On 02/25/21 12:01, Romain Naour wrote:
> >> Hello Quais, All,
> >>
> >> Le jeu. 25 févr. 2021 à 11:18, Qais Yousef <qais.yousef at arm.com> a écrit :
> >>
> >>     On 01/23/21 19:44, Qais Yousef wrote:
> >>     > On 12/21/20 13:45, Qais Yousef wrote:
> >>     > > On 12/20/20 16:12, Romain Naour wrote:
> >>     > > > From: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef at arm.com>
> >>     > > >
> >>     > > > bpftrace is a high-level tracing language for Linux enhanced Berkeley
> >>     > > > Packet Filter (eBPF) available in recent Linux kernels (4.x).
> >>     > > >
> >>     > > > Only tested on x86_64 and aarch64. The package doesn't support i386
> >>     and
> >>     > > > aarch32.
> >>     > > >
> >>     > > > The libbpf dependency allow to enable the BTF support:
> >>     > > >  # bpftrace --info
> >>     > > >  System
> >>     > > >    OS: Linux 5.4.58 #1 SMP Sun Dec 20 15:56:56 CET 2020
> >>     > > >    Arch: aarch64
> >>     > > >
> >>     > > >  Build
> >>     > > >    version: 2020.11-328-g019a9
> >>     > > >    LLVM: 9.0.1
> >>     > > >    foreach_sym: yes
> >>     > > >    unsafe uprobe: no
> >>     > > >    bfd: yes
> >>     > > >    bpf_attach_kfunc: yes
> >>     > > >    bcc_usdt_addsem: yes
> >>     > > >    bcc bpf_attach_uprobe refcount: yes
> >>     > > >    libbpf: yes
> >>     > > >    libbpf btf dump: yes
> >>     > > >    libbpf btf dump type decl: yes
> >>     > > >
> >>     > > > bfptrace doesn't use the libbpf_bcc library provided by bcc package.
> >>     > > >
> >>     > > > Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef at arm.com>
> >>     > > > Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at gmail.com>
> >>     > > > Cc: Jugurtha BELKALEM <jugurtha.belkalem at smile.fr>
> >>     > > > ---
> >>     > > > v6: Update DEVELOPERS file
> >>     > >
> >>     > > LGTM.
> >>     >
> >>     > Ping.
> >>     >
> >>     > I had issues with building patch 5, but the rest of the series is in good
> >>     shape
> >>     > IMO and can be merged independently at least.
> >>     >
> >>     > Is there anything more needs to be done to help get this support merged?
> >>
> >>     Ping again. It'd be great to finally have these merged.
> >>
> >>
> >> Maintainers are currently busy at the release 2021.02 version of Buildroot.
> >>
> >> But yes, this work has been reviewed and reworked by Quais and me.
> >>
> >> I guess It's good to go.
> > 
> > Another gentle ping. Hopefully the release is done now for this to be
> > considered.
> 
> Gentle ping too.
> 
> The patch series is here:
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/buildroot/list/?series=221413
> 
> I didn't work on it since then, only the patch 5/5 needs to be reworked.

Ping!

This series has been setting around since forever now. What's the right way
forward to get this over the fence?

Thanks

--
Qais Yousef


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