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    trace: bpf: Allow bpf to attach to bare tracepoints · 6939f4ef
    Qais Yousef authored
    Some subsystems only have bare tracepoints (a tracepoint with no
    associated trace event) to avoid the problem of trace events being an
    ABI that can't be changed.
    
    >From bpf presepective, bare tracepoints are what it calls
    RAW_TRACEPOINT().
    
    Since bpf assumed there's 1:1 mapping, it relied on hooking to
    DEFINE_EVENT() macro to create bpf mapping of the tracepoints. Since
    bare tracepoints use DECLARE_TRACE() to create the tracepoint, bpf had
    no knowledge about their existence.
    
    By teaching bpf_probe.h to parse DECLARE_TRACE() in a similar fashion to
    DEFINE_EVENT(), bpf can find and attach to the new raw tracepoints.
    
    Enabling that comes with the contract that changes to raw tracepoints
    don't constitute a regression if they break existing bpf programs.
    We need the ability to continue to morph and modify these raw
    tracepoints without worrying about any ABI.
    
    Update Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst to document this contract.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarQais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarYonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210119122237.2426878-2-qais.yousef@arm.com
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