bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type

Introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT programs that can be attached to
HW and SW perf events (PERF_TYPE_HARDWARE and PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE
correspondingly in uapi/linux/perf_event.h)

The program visible context meta structure is
struct bpf_perf_event_data {
    struct pt_regs regs;
     __u64 sample_period;
};
which is accessible directly from the program:
int bpf_prog(struct bpf_perf_event_data *ctx)
{
  ... ctx->sample_period ...
  ... ctx->regs.ip ...
}

The bpf verifier rewrites the accesses into kernel internal
struct bpf_perf_event_data_kern which allows changing
struct perf_sample_data without affecting bpf programs.
New fields can be added to the end of struct bpf_perf_event_data
in the future.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/perf_event.h b/include/linux/perf_event.h
index 2b6b43cc0dd5..97bfe62f30d7 100644
--- a/include/linux/perf_event.h
+++ b/include/linux/perf_event.h
@@ -788,6 +788,11 @@ struct perf_output_handle {
 	int				page;
 };
 
+struct bpf_perf_event_data_kern {
+	struct pt_regs *regs;
+	struct perf_sample_data *data;
+};
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_CGROUP_PERF
 
 /*