libbpf: Add the ability to suppress perf event enablement

Automatically enabling a perf event after attaching a BPF prog to it is
not always desirable.

Add a new "dont_enable" field to struct bpf_perf_event_opts. While
introducing "enable" instead would be nicer in that it would avoid
a double negation in the implementation, it would make
DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS() less efficient.

Acked-by: Eduard Zingerman <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Jiri Olsa <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Thomas Richter <[email protected]>
Co-developed-by: Thomas Richter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Richter <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index fb4d92c5c339..8f5a81b672e1 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -10965,11 +10965,14 @@ struct bpf_link *bpf_program__attach_perf_event_opts(const struct bpf_program *p
 		}
 		link->link.fd = pfd;
 	}
-	if (ioctl(pfd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0) < 0) {
-		err = -errno;
-		pr_warn("prog '%s': failed to enable perf_event FD %d: %s\n",
-			prog->name, pfd, errstr(err));
-		goto err_out;
+
+	if (!OPTS_GET(opts, dont_enable, false)) {
+		if (ioctl(pfd, PERF_EVENT_IOC_ENABLE, 0) < 0) {
+			err = -errno;
+			pr_warn("prog '%s': failed to enable perf_event FD %d: %s\n",
+				prog->name, pfd, errstr(err));
+			goto err_out;
+		}
 	}
 
 	return &link->link;