Add eBPF plugin to trace execve system calls#126
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This plugin uses eBPF and has less performance overhead than using the audit subsystem to capture execve system calls. Also it does not drop events under heavy load conditions. It requires linux 5.8+ for eBPF ringbuffer support - artifacts should check that before calling it. It uses tracepoint/sched/sched_process_exec because tracepoint/syscalls/sys_enter_execve is not reliable bpftrace/bpftrace#2523 (comment)
The execsnoop plugin can be used if it's in the binary and the kernel is 5.8+ required for eBPF ringbuffer support. Otherwise the audit plugin will be used as before.
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Using eBPF to trace execve system calls is more efficient than using the audit subsystem, so systems with high exec workloads should see less overall performance degradation. The new plugin requires kernel 5.8+ and systems without this will continue to use the audit plugin.