BPFd: Running BCC tools remotely across systems and architectures
BPFd: Running BCC tools remotely across systems and architectures
[Development] Posted Jan 23, 2018 19:08 UTC (Tue) by _joel_
BPF is an increasingly capable tool for instrumenting and tracing the operation of the kernel; it has enabled the creation of the growing set of BCC tools. Unfortunately, BCC has no support for a cross-development workflow where the development machine and the target machine running the developed code are different. Cross-development is favored by embedded-systems kernel developers who tend to develop on an x86 host and then flash and test their code on SoCs (System on Chips) based on the ARM architecture. In this article, I introduce BPFd, a project to enable cross development using BPF and BCC.