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September 27-30, 2021
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Tuesday, September 28 • 5:00pm - 5:50pm
(IN-PERSON) Ply: Lightweight BPF Tracing - Frank Vasquez, Lunar Energy

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In this talk, I will show you how to build and deploy ply (a dynamic tracing language for BPF) to a BeagleBone Black then write ply scripts to attach probes and tracepoints to a running kernel and application on that same target. BPF has rapidly eclipsed all previous tracers for Linux. While BPF has taken the cloud native community by storm, the technology has yet to make significant inroads within the embedded Linux ecosystem. I will explain the reasons for this current situation and demonstrate a possible way forward. The bpftrace dynamic tracing language relies on the LLVM-based BCC toolchain to compile scripts down to BPF bytecode. Because of its dependency on LLVM, BCC only supports a few 64-bit CPU architectures, severely limiting the use of BPF in embedded systems. Fortunately, the IO Visor Project offers a lightweight alternative to bpftrace called ply. Like bpftrace, ply’s syntax is inspired by both DTrace and awk. Unlike bpftrace, ply targets embedded CPU architectures like ARM and PowerPC making it possible to deploy BPF to many more devices. Buildroot includes ply as of its 2021.02 LTS release.
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Frank Vasquez

technical author, freelance
Frank Vasquez is a software engineer and published author with over a decade of experience designing and building embedded Linux systems. During that time, he has shipped numerous devices including a rackmount DSP audio server, a diver-held sonar camcorder, and a consumer IoT hotspot... Read More →

ply lightweight ebpf tracing pdf
Tuesday September 28, 2021 5:00pm - 5:50pm PDT
Elwha A
  Linux Systems, eBPF