perf record: Add --setup-filter option
To allow BPF filters for unprivileged users it needs to pin the BPF
objects to BPF-fs first. Let's add a new option to pin and unpin the
objects easily. I'm not sure 'perf record' is a right place to do this
but I don't have a better idea right now.
$ sudo perf record --setup-filter pin
The above command would pin BPF program and maps for the filter when the
system has BPF-fs (usually at /sys/fs/bpf/). To unpin the objects,
users can run the following command (as root).
$ sudo perf record --setup-filter unpin
Committer testing:
root@number:~# perf record --setup-filter pin
root@number:~# ls -la /sys/fs/bpf/perf_filter/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 .
drwxr-xr-t. 3 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 ..
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 dropped
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 filters
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 perf_sample_filter
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 pid_hash
-rw-------. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 sample_f_rodata
root@number:~# ls -la /sys/fs/bpf/perf_filter/perf_sample_filter
-rwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 0 Jul 31 10:43 /sys/fs/bpf/perf_filter/perf_sample_filter
root@number:~#
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com>
Cc: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Kan Liang <kan.liang@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703223035.2024586-8-namhyung@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>