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bpf: Remove config check to enable bpf support for branch records
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Branch data available to BPF programs can be very useful to get stack traces
out of userspace application.

Commit fff7b64 ("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: fff7b64 ("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
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kjain101 authored and borkmann committed Dec 6, 2021
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6 changes: 1 addition & 5 deletions kernel/trace/bpf_trace.c
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Expand Up @@ -1404,9 +1404,6 @@ static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_perf_prog_read_value_proto = {
BPF_CALL_4(bpf_read_branch_records, struct bpf_perf_event_data_kern *, ctx,
void *, buf, u32, size, u64, flags)
{
#ifndef CONFIG_X86
return -ENOENT;
#else
static const u32 br_entry_size = sizeof(struct perf_branch_entry);
struct perf_branch_stack *br_stack = ctx->data->br_stack;
u32 to_copy;
Expand All @@ -1415,7 +1412,7 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_read_branch_records, struct bpf_perf_event_data_kern *, ctx,
return -EINVAL;

if (unlikely(!br_stack))
return -EINVAL;
return -ENOENT;

if (flags & BPF_F_GET_BRANCH_RECORDS_SIZE)
return br_stack->nr * br_entry_size;
Expand All @@ -1427,7 +1424,6 @@ BPF_CALL_4(bpf_read_branch_records, struct bpf_perf_event_data_kern *, ctx,
memcpy(buf, br_stack->entries, to_copy);

return to_copy;
#endif
}

static const struct bpf_func_proto bpf_read_branch_records_proto = {
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