Tutorial compatibility matrix

This table is generated from each tutorial's .config metadata. Minimum kernel means the oldest kernel that the tutorial currently declares support for. Basis says whether that value comes from the tutorial documentation, the first version of a required feature, or the repository's declared baseline. Not in CI does not imply that a manual test was performed. Distribution kernels may disable a listed option, so a version number alone does not guarantee compatibility.

Tutorial	Minimum kernel	Basis	Architectures	BTF	Core kernel config	Hardware	Root	Test status
eBPF Tutorial by Example 0: Introduction to Core Concepts and Tools	N/A	N/A	All	Not required	None	None	Not required	Docs only
eBPF Tutorial by Example 1: Hello World, Framework and Development	4.8	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Not required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 2: Monitoring unlink System Calls with kprobe	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 3: Monitoring unlink System Calls with fentry	x86_64:5.5, arm64:6.0	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 4: Capturing Opening Files and Filter with Global Variables	4.8	Repository baseline	x86_64, arm64	Not required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 5: Capturing readline Function Calls with Uprobe	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 6: Capturing Signal Sending and Store State with Hash Maps	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 7: Capturing Process Execution, Output with perf event array	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y, CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 8: Monitoring Process Exit Events, Output with Ring Buffer	5.8	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 9: Capturing Scheduling Latency and Recording as Histogram	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 10: Capturing Interrupts with hardirqs or softirqs	5.5	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_CGROUPS=y, CONFIG_CGROUP_BPF=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 11: Develop User-Space Programs with libbpf and Trace exec() and exit()	5.8	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 12: Using eBPF Program Profile for Performance Analysis	5.8	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Optional	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial by Example 13: Statistics of TCP Connection Delay with libbpf	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 14: Recording TCP Connection Status and TCP RTT	5.5	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE=y, CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 15: Capturing User-Space Java GC Duration Using USDT	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial by Example 16: Monitoring Memory Leaks	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 17: Count Random/Sequential Disk I/O	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y	Block device	Required	CI runtime
More Reference Materials： papers, projects	N/A	N/A	All	Not required	None	None	Not required	Docs only
eBPF Tutorial by Example 19: Security Detection and Defense using LSM	5.7	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_LSM=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y	None	Required	Not in CI
eBPF Tutorial by Example 20: tc Traffic Control	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_NET_CLS_BPF=y|m, CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y	Network interface	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial by Example 21: Programmable Packet Processing with XDP	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y	Network interface	Required	Not in CI
eBPF Tutorial by Example: Using eBPF Programs on Android	5.15	Tutorial docs	x86_64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y	Android device or emulator	Required	Not in CI
L7 Tracing with eBPF: HTTP and Beyond via Socket Filters and Syscall Tracepoints	5.17	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Practical Tutorial: Hiding Process or File Information	5.8	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y	None	Required	CI build
Using bpf_send_signal to Terminate Malicious Processes in eBPF	5.8	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Tutorial: Privilege Escalation via File Content Manipulation	5.8	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial: Transparent Text Replacement in File Reads	5.17	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y	None	Required	CI build
Running eBPF After Application Exits: The Lifecycle of eBPF Programs	5.8	Required feature	x86_64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Development Practices: Accelerating Network Request Forwarding with Sockops	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_CGROUPS=y, CONFIG_CGROUP_BPF=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y	Network interface	Required	CI build
eBPF Practical Tutorial: Capturing SSL/TLS Plain Text Data Using uprobe	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Practical Tutorial: Using eBPF to Trace Go Routine States	5.2	Required feature	x86_64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial by Example 32: Wall Clock Profiling with Combined On-CPU and Off-CPU Analysis	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI build
Measuring Function Latency with eBPF	4.8	Repository baseline	x86_64, arm64	Optional	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Development Practice: Modifying System Call Arguments with eBPF	5.8	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
eBPF Development Practices: Asynchronously Send to Kernel with User Ring Buffer	6.1	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Optional	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
Userspace eBPF Runtimes: Overview and Applications	N/A	N/A	All	Not required	None	None	Not required	Docs only
eBPF Practice: Tracing User Space Rust Applications with Uprobe	4.8	Repository baseline	x86_64, arm64	Not required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI runtime
Expanding eBPF Compile Once, Run Everywhere(CO-RE) to Userspace Compatibility	5.2	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	CI build
Using eBPF to Trace Nginx Requests	4.8	Repository baseline	x86_64, arm64	Not required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	Not in CI
Using eBPF to Trace MySQL Queries	4.8	Repository baseline	x86_64, arm64	Not required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	None	Required	Not in CI
eBPF Tutorial by Example: Capturing TCP Information with XDP	5.8	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y	Network interface	Required	CI build
eBPF Developer Tutorial: XDP Load Balancer	4.8	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Optional	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y	Network interface	Required	CI build
Extending eBPF Beyond Its Limits: Custom kfuncs in Kernel Modules	6.11	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES=y, CONFIG_KPROBE_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_MODULES=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial: Introduction to the BPF Scheduler	6.12	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial by Example: Implementing the scx_nest Scheduler	6.12	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_SCHED_CLASS_EXT=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial by Example: Building a High-Performance XDP Packet Generator	5.18	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Optional	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_XDP_SOCKETS=y	Network interface	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial: Tracing CUDA GPU Operations	5.8	Required feature	x86_64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	NVIDIA CUDA GPU	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial: Energy Monitoring for Process-Level Power Analysis	5.8	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial: Fixing Broken HID Devices Without Kernel Patches	6.3	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_HID_BPF=y, CONFIG_UHID=y|m	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial by Example 50: Composable Traffic Control with TCX Links	6.6	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Optional	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_NET_XGRESS=y	Network interface	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial: cgroup-based Policy Control	5.8	Required feature	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_CGROUPS=y, CONFIG_CGROUP_BPF=y, CONFIG_CGROUP_DEVICE=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial by Example: BPF Arena for Zero-Copy Shared Memory	6.9	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial: BPF Iterators for Kernel Data Export	5.8	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial by Example: BPF Token for Delegated Privilege and Secure Program Loading	6.9	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_USER_NS=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial: BPF Workqueues for Asynchronous Sleepable Tasks	6.10	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_FTRACE=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial by Example: BPF Dynamic Pointers for Variable-Length Data	6.4	Tutorial docs	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_NET_CLS_BPF=y|m, CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y	Network interface	Required	CI build
eBPF Tutorial: Extending Kernel Subsystems with BPF struct_ops	Unknown	Unverified	x86_64, arm64	Required	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_JIT=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=y, CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF_MODULES=y, CONFIG_MODULES=y	None	Required	CI build
eBPF by Example: Building a GPU Flamegraph Profiler with CUPTI	5.8	Required feature	x86_64	Optional	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS=y	NVIDIA CUDA GPU	Required	Not in CI
eBPF Tutorial by Example: Monitoring GPU Driver Activity with Kernel Tracepoints	4.8	Repository baseline	x86_64	Optional	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y	GPU	Required	Not in CI
eBPF Tutorial by Example: Tracing Intel NPU Kernel Driver Operations	6.2	Tutorial docs	x86_64	Optional	CONFIG_BPF=y, CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y, CONFIG_BPF_EVENTS=y, CONFIG_DRM_ACCEL=y, CONFIG_DRM_ACCEL_IVPU=y|m, CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y	Intel NPU	Required	Not in CI

Metadata fields

• kernel_min and kernel_min_basis: the declared minimum kernel and its evidence basis; use architecture:version when architectures differ.
• architectures: architectures the tutorial currently declares support for.
• btf and kernel_config: the BTF requirement and core kernel options common to the implementation paths; see the tutorial for vendor- or hook-specific conditions. y|m means built in or loaded as a module.
• hardware: specialized hardware or environment required to run the tutorial; none means no specialized hardware.
• root: whether running the tutorial requires root privileges.
• test_status: ci-runtime executes in CI, ci-build checks only the build, not-in-ci means there is no CI evidence, and docs-only is documentation only.

Field definitions and allowed values are validated by scripts/generate_compatibility.py. When a tutorial requirement changes, update its .config and rerun the generator.