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Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2014 13:06:31 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 11/14] tracing: allow eBPF programs to be
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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
To: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
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On Tue, Jul 1, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 06/28/2014 02:06 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>>
>> User interface:
>> cat bpf_123 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/__event__/filter
>>
>> where 123 is an id of the eBPF program priorly loaded.
>> __event__ is static tracepoint event.
>> (kprobe events will be supported in the future patches)
>>
>> eBPF programs can call in-kernel helper functions to:
>> - lookup/update/delete elements in maps
>> - memcmp
>> - trace_printk
>> - load_pointer
>> - dump_stack
>
>
> Are there plans to let eBPF replace the generic event
> filtering framework in tracing?

yes. the other patch that replaces predicate tree walking with
eBPF programs is pending on eBPF split out of networking.
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