tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/perf_version.h

File Facts

System

Linux kernel

Corpus path

tools/perf/util/bpf_skel/perf_version.h

Extension

.h

Size

445 bytes

Lines

18

Domain

Support Tooling And Documentation

Bucket

tools

Inferred role

Support Tooling And Documentation: implementation source

Status

source implementation candidate

Why This File Exists

Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

• Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.

Dependency Surface

• vmlinux.h
• bpf/bpf_helpers.h

Detected Declarations

• No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.

Annotated Snippet

#ifndef __PERF_VERSION_H__
#define __PERF_VERSION_H__

#include "vmlinux.h"
#include <bpf/bpf_helpers.h>

/*
 * This is used by tests/shell/record_bpf_metadata.sh
 * to verify that BPF metadata generation works.
 *
 * PERF_VERSION is defined by a build rule at compile time.
 */
const char bpf_metadata_perf_version[] SEC(".rodata") = PERF_VERSION;

#endif /* __PERF_VERSION_H__ */

Annotation

• Immediate include surface: `vmlinux.h`, `bpf/bpf_helpers.h`.
• Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
• Implementation status: source implementation candidate.

Implementation Notes

• This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
• Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
• Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.