tools: bpf: move the event reading loop to libbpf

There are two copies of event reading loop - in bpftool and
trace_helpers "library".  Consolidate them and move the code
to libbpf.  Return codes from trace_helpers are kept, but
renamed to include LIBBPF prefix.

Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
index 197f9ce2248c..ce681097584e 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
@@ -267,4 +267,17 @@ int bpf_prog_load(const char *file, enum bpf_prog_type type,
 		  struct bpf_object **pobj, int *prog_fd);
 
 int bpf_set_link_xdp_fd(int ifindex, int fd, __u32 flags);
+
+enum bpf_perf_event_ret {
+	LIBBPF_PERF_EVENT_DONE	= 0,
+	LIBBPF_PERF_EVENT_ERROR	= -1,
+	LIBBPF_PERF_EVENT_CONT	= -2,
+};
+
+typedef enum bpf_perf_event_ret (*bpf_perf_event_print_t)(void *event,
+							  void *priv);
+int bpf_perf_event_read_simple(void *mem, unsigned long size,
+			       unsigned long page_size,
+			       void **buf, size_t *buf_len,
+			       bpf_perf_event_print_t fn, void *priv);
 #endif