The goal is offer the basis of what is required, in terms of regex handling, to implement the C equivalent of what b.attach_kprobe(event_re=...) does in Python. The first client that will be making use of it is a CO-RE port of vfscount:
This could also be useful to, for instance, add regex support to the libbpf-tools/funclatency tool which is currently lacking this feature when compared to the Python version:
The goal is offer the basis of what is required, in terms of regex handling, to implement the C equivalent of what
b.attach_kprobe(event_re=...)does in Python. The first client that will be making use of it is a CO-RE port ofvfscount:This could also be useful to, for instance, add regex support to the
libbpf-tools/funclatencytool which is currently lacking this feature when compared to the Python version:https://github.com/iovisor/bcc/blob/c0e9b562675bcd18eff9443af4e0d2cc55e38738/libbpf-tools/funclatency.c#L7-L9