bpftool: Remove useless emphasis on command description in man pages

As it turns out, the terms in definition lists in the rST file are
already rendered with bold-ish formatting when generating the

bpftool: Remove useless emphasis on command description in man pages

As it turns out, the terms in definition lists in the rST file are
already rendered with bold-ish formatting when generating the man pages;
all double-star sequences we have in the commands for the command
description are unnecessary, and can be removed to make the
documentation easier to read.

The rST files were automatically processed with:

sed -i '/DESCRIPTION/,/OPTIONS/ { /^\*/ s/\*\*//g }' b*.rst

Signed-off-by: Rameez Rehman <rameezrehman408@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240331200346.29118-3-qmo@kernel.org

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bpftool: Use simpler indentation in source rST for documentation

The rST manual pages for bpftool would use a mix of tabs and spaces for
indentation. While this is the norm in C code, this is rather

bpftool: Use simpler indentation in source rST for documentation

The rST manual pages for bpftool would use a mix of tabs and spaces for
indentation. While this is the norm in C code, this is rather unusual
for rST documents, and over time we've seen many contributors use a
wrong level of indentation for documentation update.

Let's fix bpftool's indentation in docs once and for all:

- Let's use spaces, that are more common in rST files.
- Remove one level of indentation for the synopsis, the command
description, and the "see also" section. As a result, all sections
start with the same indentation level in the generated man page.
- Rewrap the paragraphs after the changes.

There is no content change in this patch, only indentation and
rewrapping changes. The wrapping in the generated source files for the
manual pages is changed, but the pages displayed with "man" remain the
same, apart from the adjusted indentation level on relevant sections.

[ Quentin: rebased on bpf-next, removed indent level for command
description and options, updated synopsis, command summary, and "see
also" sections. ]

Signed-off-by: Rameez Rehman <rameezrehman408@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <qmo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240331200346.29118-2-qmo@kernel.org

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bpftool: Rename "bpftool feature list" into "... feature list_builtins"

To make it more explicit that the features listed with "bpftool feature
list" are known to bpftool, but not necessary availabl

bpftool: Rename "bpftool feature list" into "... feature list_builtins"

To make it more explicit that the features listed with "bpftool feature
list" are known to bpftool, but not necessary available on the system
(as opposed to the probed features), rename the "feature list" command
into "feature list_builtins".

Note that "bpftool feature list" still works as before given that we
recognise arguments from their prefixes; but the real name of the
subcommand, in particular as displayed in the man page or the
interactive help, will now include "_builtins".

Since we update the bash completion accordingly, let's also take this
chance to redirect error output to /dev/null in the completion script,
to avoid displaying unexpected error messages when users attempt to
tab-complete.

Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220701093805.16920-1-quentin@isovalent.com

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bpftool: Add feature list (prog/map/link/attach types, helpers)

Add a "bpftool feature list" subcommand to list BPF "features".
Contrarily to "bpftool feature probe", this is not about the features

bpftool: Add feature list (prog/map/link/attach types, helpers)

Add a "bpftool feature list" subcommand to list BPF "features".
Contrarily to "bpftool feature probe", this is not about the features
available on the system. Instead, it lists all features known to bpftool
from compilation time; in other words, all program, map, attach, link
types known to the libbpf version in use, and all helpers found in the
UAPI BPF header.

The first use case for this feature is bash completion: running the
command provides a list of types that can be used to produce the list of
candidate map types, for example.

Now that bpftool uses "standard" names provided by libbpf for the
program, map, link, and attach types, having the ability to list these
types and helpers could also be useful in scripts to loop over existing
items.

Sample output:

# bpftool feature list prog_types | grep -vw unspec | head -n 6
socket_filter
kprobe
sched_cls
sched_act
tracepoint
xdp

# bpftool -p feature list map_types | jq '.[1]'
"hash"

# bpftool feature list attach_types | grep '^cgroup_'
cgroup_inet_ingress
cgroup_inet_egress
[...]
cgroup_inet_sock_release

# bpftool feature list helpers | grep -vw bpf_unspec | wc -l
207

The "unspec" types and helpers are not filtered out by bpftool, so as to
remain closer to the enums, and to preserve the indices in the JSON
arrays (e.g. "hash" at index 1 == BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH in map types list).

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Daniel Müller <deso@posteo.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220629203637.138944-2-quentin@isovalent.com

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bpftool: Update doc (use susbtitutions) and test_bpftool_synctypes.py

test_bpftool_synctypes.py helps detecting inconsistencies in bpftool
between the different list of types and options scattered i

bpftool: Update doc (use susbtitutions) and test_bpftool_synctypes.py

test_bpftool_synctypes.py helps detecting inconsistencies in bpftool
between the different list of types and options scattered in the
sources, the documentation, and the bash completion. For options that
apply to all bpftool commands, the script had a hardcoded list of
values, and would use them to check whether the man pages are
up-to-date. When writing the script, it felt acceptable to have this
list in order to avoid to open and parse bpftool's main.h every time,
and because the list of global options in bpftool doesn't change so
often.

However, this is prone to omissions, and we recently added a new
-l|--legacy option which was described in common_options.rst, but not
listed in the options summary of each manual page. The script did not
complain, because it keeps comparing the hardcoded list to the (now)
outdated list in the header file.

To address the issue, this commit brings the following changes:

- Options that are common to all bpftool commands (--json, --pretty, and
--debug) are moved to a dedicated file, and used in the definition of
a RST substitution. This substitution is used in the sources of all
the man pages.

- This list of common options is updated, with the addition of the new
-l|--legacy option.

- The script test_bpftool_synctypes.py is updated to compare:
- Options specific to a command, found in C files, for the
interactive help messages, with the same specific options from the
relevant man page for that command.
- Common options, checked just once: the list in main.h is
compared with the new list in substitutions.rst.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211115225844.33943-3-quentin@isovalent.com

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bpftool: Add SPDX tags to RST documentation files

Most files in the kernel repository have a SPDX tags. The files that
don't have such a tag (or another license boilerplate) tend to fall
under the G

bpftool: Add SPDX tags to RST documentation files

Most files in the kernel repository have a SPDX tags. The files that
don't have such a tag (or another license boilerplate) tend to fall
under the GPL-2.0 license. In the past, bpftool's Makefile (for example)
has been marked as GPL-2.0 for that reason, when in fact all bpftool is
dual-licensed.

To prevent a similar confusion from happening with the RST documentation
files for bpftool, let's explicitly mark all files as dual-licensed.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211115225844.33943-2-quentin@isovalent.com

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tools: bpftool: Update and synchronise option list in doc and help msg

All bpftool commands support the options for JSON output and debug from
libbpf. In addition, some commands support additional o

tools: bpftool: Update and synchronise option list in doc and help msg

All bpftool commands support the options for JSON output and debug from
libbpf. In addition, some commands support additional options
corresponding to specific use cases.

The list of options described in the man pages for the different
commands are not always accurate. The messages for interactive help are
mostly limited to HELP_SPEC_OPTIONS, and are even less representative of
the actual set of options supported for the commands.

Let's update the lists:

- HELP_SPEC_OPTIONS is modified to contain the "default" options (JSON
and debug), and to be extensible (no ending curly bracket).
- All commands use HELP_SPEC_OPTIONS in their help message, and then
complete the list with their specific options.
- The lists of options in the man pages are updated.
- The formatting of the list for bpftool.rst is adjusted to match
formatting for the other man pages. This is for consistency, and also
because it will be helpful in a future patch to automatically check
that the files are synchronised.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210730215435.7095-5-quentin@isovalent.com

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tools: bpftool: Automate generation for "SEE ALSO" sections in man pages

The "SEE ALSO" sections of bpftool's manual pages refer to bpf(2),
bpf-helpers(7), then all existing bpftool man pages (save

tools: bpftool: Automate generation for "SEE ALSO" sections in man pages

The "SEE ALSO" sections of bpftool's manual pages refer to bpf(2),
bpf-helpers(7), then all existing bpftool man pages (save the current
one).

This leads to nearly-identical lists being duplicated in all manual
pages. Ideally, when a new page is created, all lists should be updated
accordingly, but this has led to omissions and inconsistencies multiple
times in the past.

Let's take it out of the RST files and generate the "SEE ALSO" sections
automatically in the Makefile when generating the man pages. The lists
are not really useful in the RST anyway because all other pages are
available in the same directory.

v3:
- Fix conflict with a previous patchset that introduced RST2MAN_OPTS
variable passed to rst2man.

v2:
- Use "echo -n" instead of "printf" in Makefile, to avoid any risk of
passing a format string directly to the command.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200910203935.25304-1-quentin@isovalent.com

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tools: bpftool: Include common options from separate file

Nearly all man pages for bpftool have the same common set of option
flags (--help, --version, --json, --pretty, --debug). The description is

tools: bpftool: Include common options from separate file

Nearly all man pages for bpftool have the same common set of option
flags (--help, --version, --json, --pretty, --debug). The description is
duplicated across all the pages, which is more difficult to maintain if
the description of an option changes. It may also be confusing to sort
out what options are not "common" and should not be copied when creating
new manual pages.

Let's move the description for those common options to a separate file,
which is included with a RST directive when generating the man pages.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200909162500.17010-3-quentin@isovalent.com

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tools, bpftool: Minor fixes for documentation

Bring minor improvements to bpftool documentation. Fix or harmonise
formatting, update map types (including in interactive help), improve
description fo

tools, bpftool: Minor fixes for documentation

Bring minor improvements to bpftool documentation. Fix or harmonise
formatting, update map types (including in interactive help), improve
description for "map create", fix a build warning due to a missing line
after the double-colon for the "bpftool prog profile" example,
complete/harmonise/sort the list of related bpftool man pages in
footers.

v2:
- Remove (instead of changing) mark-up on "value" in bpftool-map.rst,
when it does not refer to something passed on the command line.
- Fix an additional typo ("hexadeximal") in the same file.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200511161536.29853-3-quentin@isovalent.com

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tools: bpftool: Make libcap dependency optional

The new libcap dependency is not used for an essential feature of
bpftool, and we could imagine building the tool without checks on
CAP_SYS_ADMIN by d

tools: bpftool: Make libcap dependency optional

The new libcap dependency is not used for an essential feature of
bpftool, and we could imagine building the tool without checks on
CAP_SYS_ADMIN by disabling probing features as an unprivileged users.

Make it so, in order to avoid a hard dependency on libcap, and to ease
packaging/embedding of bpftool.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200429144506.8999-4-quentin@isovalent.com

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tools: bpftool: Allow unprivileged users to probe features

There is demand for a way to identify what BPF helper functions are
available to unprivileged users. To do so, allow unprivileged users to

tools: bpftool: Allow unprivileged users to probe features

There is demand for a way to identify what BPF helper functions are
available to unprivileged users. To do so, allow unprivileged users to
run "bpftool feature probe" to list BPF-related features. This will only
show features accessible to those users, and may not reflect the full
list of features available (to administrators) on the system.

To avoid the case where bpftool is inadvertently run as non-root and
would list only a subset of the features supported by the system when it
would be expected to list all of them, running as unprivileged is gated
behind the "unprivileged" keyword passed to the command line. When used
by a privileged user, this keyword allows to drop the CAP_SYS_ADMIN and
to list the features available to unprivileged users. Note that this
addsd a dependency on libpcap for compiling bpftool.

Note that there is no particular reason why the probes were restricted
to root, other than the fact I did not need them for unprivileged and
did not bother with the additional checks at the time probes were added.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200429144506.8999-3-quentin@isovalent.com

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bpftool: Update documentation of "bpftool feature" command

Update documentation of "bpftool feature" command with information about
new arguments: "full".

Signed-off-by: Michal Rostecki <mrostecki@

bpftool: Update documentation of "bpftool feature" command

Update documentation of "bpftool feature" command with information about
new arguments: "full".

Signed-off-by: Michal Rostecki <mrostecki@opensuse.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200226165941.6379-4-mrostecki@opensuse.org

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tools: bpftool: add -d option to get debug output from libbpf

libbpf has three levels of priority for output messages: warn, info,
debug. By default, debug output is not printed to the console.

Add

tools: bpftool: add -d option to get debug output from libbpf

libbpf has three levels of priority for output messages: warn, info,
debug. By default, debug output is not printed to the console.

Add a new "--debug" (short name: "-d") option to bpftool to print libbpf
logs for all three levels.

Internally, we simply use the function provided by libbpf to replace the
default printing function by one that prints logs regardless of their
level.

v2:
- Remove the possibility to select the log-levels to use (v1 offered a
combination of "warn", "info" and "debug").
- Rename option and offer a short name: -d|--debug.
- Add option description to all bpftool manual pages (instead of
bpftool-prog.rst only), as all commands use libbpf.

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

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bpftool/docs: add btf sub-command documentation

Document usage and sample output format for `btf dump` sub-command.

Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc

bpftool/docs: add btf sub-command documentation

Document usage and sample output format for `btf dump` sub-command.

Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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tools: bpftool: fix short option name for printing version in man pages

Manual pages would tell that option "-v" (lower case) would print the
version number for bpftool. This is wrong: the short nam

tools: bpftool: fix short option name for printing version in man pages

Manual pages would tell that option "-v" (lower case) would print the
version number for bpftool. This is wrong: the short name of the option
is "-V" (upper case). Fix the documentation accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

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tools: bpftool: doc, fix incorrect text

Documentation about cgroup, feature, prog uses wrong header
'MAP COMMANDS' while listing commands. This patch corrects the header
in respective doc files.

Si

tools: bpftool: doc, fix incorrect text

Documentation about cgroup, feature, prog uses wrong header
'MAP COMMANDS' while listing commands. This patch corrects the header
in respective doc files.

Signed-off-by: Prashant Bhole <bhole_prashant_q7@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>

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tools: bpftool: add probes for a network device

bpftool gained support for probing the current system in order to see
what program and map types, and what helpers are available on that
system. This

tools: bpftool: add probes for a network device

bpftool gained support for probing the current system in order to see
what program and map types, and what helpers are available on that
system. This patch adds the possibility to pass an interface index to
libbpf (and hence to the kernel) when trying to load the programs or to
create the maps, in order to see what items a given network device can
support.

A new keyword "dev <ifname>" can be used as an alternative to "kernel"
to indicate that the given device should be tested. If no target ("dev"
or "kernel") is specified bpftool defaults to probing the kernel.

Sample output:

# bpftool -p feature probe dev lo
{
"syscall_config": {
"have_bpf_syscall": true
},
"program_types": {
"have_sched_cls_prog_type": false,
"have_xdp_prog_type": false
},
...
}

As the target is a network device, /proc/ parameters and kernel
configuration are NOT dumped. Availability of the bpf() syscall is
still probed, so we can return early if that syscall is not usable
(since there is no point in attempting the remaining probes in this
case).

Among the program types, only the ones that can be offloaded are probed.
All map types are probed, as there is no specific rule telling which one
could or could not be supported by a device in the future. All helpers
are probed (but only for offload-able program types).

Caveat: as bpftool does not attempt to attach programs to the device at
the moment, probes do not entirely reflect what the device accepts:
typically, for Netronome's nfp, results will announce that TC cls
offload is available even if support has been deactivated (with e.g.
ethtool -K eth1 hw-tc-offload off).

v2:
- All helpers are probed, whereas previous version would only probe the
ones compatible with an offload-able program type. This is because we
do not keep a default compatible program type for each helper anymore.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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tools: bpftool: add C-style "#define" output for probes

Make bpftool able to dump a subset of the parameters collected by
probing the system as a listing of C-style #define macros, so that
external

tools: bpftool: add C-style "#define" output for probes

Make bpftool able to dump a subset of the parameters collected by
probing the system as a listing of C-style #define macros, so that
external projects can reuse the result of this probing and build
BPF-based project in accordance with the features available on the
system.

The new "macros" keyword is used to select this output. An additional
"prefix" keyword is added so that users can select a custom prefix for
macro names, in order to avoid any namespace conflict.

Sample output:

# bpftool feature probe kernel macros prefix FOO_
/*** System call availability ***/
#define FOO_HAVE_BPF_SYSCALL

/*** eBPF program types ***/
#define FOO_HAVE_SOCKET_FILTER_PROG_TYPE
#define FOO_HAVE_KPROBE_PROG_TYPE
#define FOO_HAVE_SCHED_CLS_PROG_TYPE
...

/*** eBPF map types ***/
#define FOO_HAVE_HASH_MAP_TYPE
#define FOO_HAVE_ARRAY_MAP_TYPE
#define FOO_HAVE_PROG_ARRAY_MAP_TYPE
...

/*** eBPF helper functions ***/
/*
* Use FOO_HAVE_PROG_TYPE_HELPER(prog_type_name, helper_name)
* to determine if <helper_name> is available for <prog_type_name>,
* e.g.
* #if FOO_HAVE_PROG_TYPE_HELPER(xdp, bpf_redirect)
* // do stuff with this helper
* #elif
* // use a workaround
* #endif
*/
#define FOO_HAVE_PROG_TYPE_HELPER(prog_type, helper) \
FOO_BPF__PROG_TYPE_ ## prog_type ## __HELPER_ ## helper
...
#define FOO_BPF__PROG_TYPE_socket_filter__HELPER_bpf_probe_read 0
#define FOO_BPF__PROG_TYPE_socket_filter__HELPER_bpf_ktime_get_ns 1
#define FOO_BPF__PROG_TYPE_socket_filter__HELPER_bpf_trace_printk 1
...

v3:
- Change output for helpers again: add a
HAVE_PROG_TYPE_HELPER(type, helper) macro that can be used to tell
if <helper> is available for program <type>.

v2:
- #define-based output added as a distinct patch.
- "HAVE_" prefix appended to macro names.
- Output limited to bpf() syscall availability, BPF prog and map types,
helper functions. In this version kernel config options, procfs
parameter or kernel version are intentionally left aside.
- Following the change on helper probes, format for helper probes in
this output style has changed (now a list of compatible program
types).

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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tools: bpftool: add probes for eBPF helper functions

Similarly to what was done for program types and map types, add a set of
probes to test the availability of the different eBPF helper functions
o

tools: bpftool: add probes for eBPF helper functions

Similarly to what was done for program types and map types, add a set of
probes to test the availability of the different eBPF helper functions
on the current system.

For each known program type, all known helpers are tested, in order to
establish a compatibility matrix. Output is provided as a set of lists
of available helpers, one per program type.

Sample output:

# bpftool feature probe kernel
...
Scanning eBPF helper functions...
eBPF helpers supported for program type socket_filter:
- bpf_map_lookup_elem
- bpf_map_update_elem
- bpf_map_delete_elem
...
eBPF helpers supported for program type kprobe:
- bpf_map_lookup_elem
- bpf_map_update_elem
- bpf_map_delete_elem
...

# bpftool --json --pretty feature probe kernel
{
...
"helpers": {
"socket_filter_available_helpers": ["bpf_map_lookup_elem", \
"bpf_map_update_elem","bpf_map_delete_elem", ...
],
"kprobe_available_helpers": ["bpf_map_lookup_elem", \
"bpf_map_update_elem","bpf_map_delete_elem", ...
],
...
}
}

v5:
- In libbpf.map, move global symbol to the new LIBBPF_0.0.2 section.

v4:
- Use "enum bpf_func_id" instead of "__u32" in bpf_probe_helper()
declaration for the type of the argument used to pass the id of
the helper to probe.
- Undef BPF_HELPER_MAKE_ENTRY after using it.

v3:
- Do not pass kernel version from bpftool to libbpf probes (kernel
version for testing program with kprobes is retrieved directly from
libbpf).
- Dump one list of available helpers per program type (instead of one
list of compatible program types per helper).

v2:
- Move probes from bpftool to libbpf.
- Test all program types for each helper, print a list of working prog
types for each helper.
- Fall back on include/uapi/linux/bpf.h for names and ids of helpers.
- Remove C-style macros output from this patch.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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tools: bpftool: add basic probe capability, probe syscall availability

Add a new component and command for bpftool, in order to probe the
system to dump a set of eBPF-related parameters so that user

tools: bpftool: add basic probe capability, probe syscall availability

Add a new component and command for bpftool, in order to probe the
system to dump a set of eBPF-related parameters so that users can know
what features are available on the system.

Parameters are dumped in plain or JSON output (with -j/-p options).

The current patch introduces probing of one simple parameter:
availability of the bpf() system call. Later commits
will add other probes.

Sample output:

# bpftool feature probe kernel
Scanning system call availability...
bpf() syscall is available

# bpftool --json --pretty feature probe kernel
{
"syscall_config": {
"have_bpf_syscall": true
}
}

The optional "kernel" keyword enforces probing of the current system,
which is the only possible behaviour at this stage. It can be safely
omitted.

The feature comes with the relevant man page, but bash completion will
come in a dedicated commit.

v3:
- Do not probe kernel version. Contrarily to what is written below for
v2, we can have the kernel version retrieved in libbpf instead of
bpftool (in the patch adding probing for program types).

v2:
- Remove C-style macros output from this patch.
- Even though kernel version is no longer needed for testing kprobes
availability, note that we still collect it in this patch so that
bpftool gets able to probe (in next patches) older kernels as well.

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

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