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, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
index d1cf813a057b..455a957cb702 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
@@ -499,9 +499,11 @@ struct bpf_perf_event_opts {
 	__u64 bpf_cookie;
 	/* don't use BPF link when attach BPF program */
 	bool force_ioctl_attach;
+	/* don't automatically enable the event */
+	bool dont_enable;
 	size_t :0;
 };
-#define bpf_perf_event_opts__last_field force_ioctl_attach
+#define bpf_perf_event_opts__last_field dont_enable
 
 LIBBPF_API struct bpf_link *
 bpf_program__attach_perf_event(const struct bpf_program *prog, int pfd);