bpf: Remove config check to enable bpf support for branch records
authorKajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Mon, 6 Dec 2021 07:33:15 +0000 (13:03 +0530)
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Mon, 6 Dec 2021 14:21:15 +0000 (15:21 +0100)
commitdb52f57211b4e45f0ebb274e2c877b211dc18591
treee61250a067381c77e4ef026c6d1b1ae1bee4cbb4
parent942df4dc5ea159100466f198d8687a49c2359ca3
bpf: Remove config check to enable bpf support for branch records

Branch data available to BPF programs can be very useful to get stack traces
out of userspace application.

Commit fff7b64355ea ("bpf: Add bpf_read_branch_records() helper") added BPF
support to capture branch records in x86. Enable this feature also for other
architectures as well by removing checks specific to x86.

If an architecture doesn't support branch records, bpf_read_branch_records()
still has appropriate checks and it will return an -EINVAL in that scenario.
Based on UAPI helper doc in include/uapi/linux/bpf.h, unsupported architectures
should return -ENOENT in such case. Hence, update the appropriate check to
return -ENOENT instead.

Selftest 'perf_branches' result on power9 machine which has the branch stacks
support:

 - Before this patch:

  [command]# ./test_progs -t perf_branches
   #88/1 perf_branches/perf_branches_hw:FAIL
   #88/2 perf_branches/perf_branches_no_hw:OK
   #88 perf_branches:FAIL
  Summary: 0/1 PASSED, 0 SKIPPED, 1 FAILED

 - After this patch:

  [command]# ./test_progs -t perf_branches
   #88/1 perf_branches/perf_branches_hw:OK
   #88/2 perf_branches/perf_branches_no_hw:OK
   #88 perf_branches:OK
  Summary: 1/2 PASSED, 0 SKIPPED, 0 FAILED

Selftest 'perf_branches' result on power9 machine which doesn't have branch
stack report:

 - After this patch:

  [command]# ./test_progs -t perf_branches
   #88/1 perf_branches/perf_branches_hw:SKIP
   #88/2 perf_branches/perf_branches_no_hw:OK
   #88 perf_branches:OK
  Summary: 1/1 PASSED, 1 SKIPPED, 0 FAILED

Fixes: fff7b64355eac ("bpf: Add bpf_read_branch_records() helper")
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Kajol Jain <kjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211206073315.77432-1-kjain@linux.ibm.com
kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c