examples/tracing/urandomread.py

#!/usr/bin/python
#
# urandomread  Example of instrumenting a kernel tracepoint.
#              For Linux, uses BCC, BPF. Embedded C.
#
# REQUIRES: Linux 4.7+ (BPF_PROG_TYPE_TRACEPOINT support).
#
# Test by running this, then in another shell, run:
#     dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null bs=1k count=5
#
# Copyright 2016 Netflix, Inc.
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License")

from __future__ import print_function
from bcc import BPF

# load BPF program
b = BPF(text="""
TRACEPOINT_PROBE(random, urandom_read) {
    // args is from /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/random/urandom_read/format
    bpf_trace_printk("%d\\n", args->got_bits);
    return 0;
}
""")

# header
print("%-18s %-16s %-6s %s" % ("TIME(s)", "COMM", "PID", "GOTBITS"))

# format output
while 1:
    try:
        (task, pid, cpu, flags, ts, msg) = b.trace_fields()
    except ValueError:
        continue
    print("%-18.9f %-16s %-6d %s" % (ts, task, pid, msg))