Commit 493fd621 authored by Brendan Gregg's avatar Brendan Gregg

some rework

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![BCC Logo](images/logo2.png)
# BPF Compiler Collection (BCC)
This directory contains source code for BCC, a toolkit for creating small
programs that can be dynamically loaded into a Linux kernel.
BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation
programs, and includes several useful tools and examples. It makes use of eBPF
(Extended Berkeley Packet Filters), a new feature that was first added to
Linux 3.15. Much of what BCC uses requires Linux 4.1 and above.
eBPF was [described by](https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/14/232) Ingo Molnár as:
> One of the more interesting features in this cycle is the ability to attach eBPF programs (user-defined, sandboxed bytecode executed by the kernel) to kprobes. This allows user-defined instrumentation on a live kernel image that can never crash, hang or interfere with the kernel negatively.
BCC makes writing eBPF programs easier to do, with kernel instrumentation in C,
and a front-end in Python. It is suited for many tasks, including advanced
performance analysis and network traffic control.
## Screenshot
This example traces a disk I/O kernel function, and populates an in-kernel
power-of-2 histogram of the I/O size. For efficiency, only the histogram
summary is returned to user-level.
```Shell
# ./bitehist.py
Tracing... Hit Ctrl-C to end.
^C
value : count distribution
0 -> 1 : 3 | |
2 -> 3 : 0 | |
4 -> 7 : 211 |********** |
8 -> 15 : 0 | |
16 -> 31 : 0 | |
32 -> 63 : 0 | |
64 -> 127 : 1 | |
128 -> 255 : 800 |**************************************|
```
The above output shows a bimodal distribution, where the largest mode of
800 I/O was between 128 and 255 Kbytes in size.
The compiler relies upon eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filters), which is a
feature in Linux kernels starting from 3.15. Currently, this compiler leverages
features which are mostly available in Linux 4.1 and above.
See the source: [bitehist.c](examples/bitehist.c) and
[bitehist.py](examples/bitehist.py). What this traces, what this stores, and how
the data is presented, can be entirely customized. This shows only some of
many possible capabilities.
## Installing
See [INSTALL.md](INSTALL.md) for installation steps on your platform.
## Contents
Some of these are single files that contain both C and Python, others have a
pair of .c and .py files, and some are directories of files.
### Tracing
Examples:
- examples/[bitehist.py](examples/bitehist.py) examples/[bitehist.c](examples/bitehist.c): Block I/O size histogram. [Examples](examples/bitehist_example.txt).
- examples/[disksnoop.py](examples/disksnoop.py) examples/[disksnoop.c](examples/disksnoop.c): Trace block device I/O showing latency. [Examples](examples/disksnoop_example.txt).
- examples/[hello_world.py](examples/hello_world.py): Prints "Hello, World!" for new processes.
- examples/[trace_fields.py](examples/trace_fields.py): Simple example of printing fields from traced events.
- examples/[vfsreadlat.py](examples/vfsreadlat.py) examples/[vfsreadlat.c](examples/vfsreadlat.c): VFS read latency distribution. [Examples](examples/vfsreadlat_example.txt).
Tools:
- tools/[funccount](tools/funccount): Count kernel function calls. [Examples](tools/funccount_example.txt).
- tools/[pidpersec](tools/pidpersec): Count new processes (via fork). [Examples](tools/pidpersec_example.txt).
- tools/[syncsnoop](tools/syncsnoop): Trace sync() syscall. [Examples](tools/syncsnoop_example.txt).
- tools/[vfscount](tools/vfscount) tools/[vfscount.c](tools/vfscount.c): Count VFS calls. [Examples](tools/vfscount_example.txt).
- tools/[vfsstat](tools/vfsstat) tools/[vfsstat.c](tools/vfsstat.c): Count some VFS calls, with column output. [Examples](tools/vfsstat_example.txt).
### Networking
Examples:
- examples/[distributed_bridge/](examples/distributed_bridge): Distributed bridge example.
- examples/[simple_tc.py](examples/simple_tc.py): Simple traffic control example.
- examples/[simulation.py](examples/simulation.py): Simulation example.
- examples/[simulation.py](examples/simulation.py): Simulation example.
- examples/[tc_neighbor_sharing.py](examples/tc_neighbor_sharing.py) examples/[tc_neighbor_sharing.c](examples/tc_neighbor_sharing.c): Per-IP classification and rate limiting.
- examples/[tunnel_monitor/](examples/tunnel_monitor): Efficiently monitor traffic flows in and out of an interface. [Example video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYy3Cwce02k).
- examples/[vlan_learning.py](examples/vlan_learning.py) examples/[vlan_learning.c](examples/vlan_learning.c): Demux Ethernet traffic into worker veth+namespaces.
## Motivation
BPF guarantees that the programs loaded into the kernel cannot crash, and
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In the future, more bindings besides python will likely be supported. Feel free
to add support for the language of your choice and send a pull request!
## Examples
## Tutorial
This toolchain is currently composed of two parts: a C wrapper around LLVM, and
a Python API to interact with the running program. Later, we will go into more
detail of how this all works.
The BCC toolchain is currently composed of two parts: a C wrapper around LLVM,
and a Python API to interact with the running program. Later, we will go into
more detail of how this all works.
### Hello, World
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