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BPF Performance Tools
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BPF Performance Tools

by Brendan Gregg
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
880 pages
28h 2m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Appendix D. C BPF

This appendix shows examples of BPF tools implemented in C, either as compiled C programs or executed via the perf(1) utility. This appendix is optional material for those readers who are interested in developing a deeper understanding of how BPF works, as well as other BPF interfaces that are supported by the Linux kernel.

Chapter 5 covers how to develop tools in bpftrace, a higher-level language that is expected to be sufficient and preferred in many cases, and Appendix C covers the BCC interface as another preferred option. This appendix is a follow-on from the BPF sections in Chapter 2.

This appendix begins with a discussion on C programming and five tips before you begin. The first program included is hello_world.c, for ...

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