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2020-09-10tools: bpftool: Automate generation for "SEE ALSO" sections in man pagesQuentin Monnet
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
2020-09-10tools: bpftool: Include common options from separate fileQuentin Monnet
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
2020-05-11tools, bpftool: Minor fixes for documentationQuentin Monnet
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
2020-03-20bpftool: Add struct_ops supportMartin KaFai Lau
This patch adds struct_ops support to the bpftool. To recap a bit on the recent bpf_struct_ops feature on the kernel side: It currently supports "struct tcp_congestion_ops" to be implemented in bpf. At a high level, bpf_struct_ops is struct_ops map populated with a number of bpf progs. bpf_struct_ops currently supports the "struct tcp_congestion_ops". However, the bpf_struct_ops design is generic enough that other kernel struct ops can be supported in the future. Although struct_ops is map+progs at a high lever, there are differences in details. For example, 1) After registering a struct_ops, the struct_ops is held by the kernel subsystem (e.g. tcp-cc). Thus, there is no need to pin a struct_ops map or its progs in order to keep them around. 2) To iterate all struct_ops in a system, it iterates all maps in type BPF_MAP_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS. BPF_MAP_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS is the current usual filter. In the future, it may need to filter by other struct_ops specific properties. e.g. filter by tcp_congestion_ops or other kernel subsystem ops in the future. 3) struct_ops requires the running kernel having BTF info. That allows more flexibility in handling other kernel structs. e.g. it can always dump the latest bpf_map_info. 4) Also, "struct_ops" command is not intended to repeat all features already provided by "map" or "prog". For example, if there really is a need to pin the struct_ops map, the user can use the "map" cmd to do that. While the first attempt was to reuse parts from map/prog.c, it ended up not a lot to share. The only obvious item is the map_parse_fds() but that still requires modifications to accommodate struct_ops map specific filtering (for the immediate and the future needs). Together with the earlier mentioned differences, it is better to part away from map/prog.c. The initial set of subcmds are, register, unregister, show, and dump. For register, it registers all struct_ops maps that can be found in an obj file. Option can be added in the future to specify a particular struct_ops map. Also, the common bpf_tcp_cc is stateless (e.g. bpf_cubic.c and bpf_dctcp.c). The "reuse map" feature is not implemented in this patch and it can be considered later also. For other subcmds, please see the man doc for details. A sample output of dump: [root@arch-fb-vm1 bpf]# bpftool struct_ops dump name cubic [{ "bpf_map_info": { "type": 26, "id": 64, "key_size": 4, "value_size": 256, "max_entries": 1, "map_flags": 0, "name": "cubic", "ifindex": 0, "btf_vmlinux_value_type_id": 18452, "netns_dev": 0, "netns_ino": 0, "btf_id": 52, "btf_key_type_id": 0, "btf_value_type_id": 0 } },{ "bpf_struct_ops_tcp_congestion_ops": { "refcnt": { "refs": { "counter": 1 } }, "state": "BPF_STRUCT_OPS_STATE_INUSE", "data": { "list": { "next": 0, "prev": 0 }, "key": 0, "flags": 0, "init": "void (struct sock *) bictcp_init/prog_id:138", "release": "void (struct sock *) 0", "ssthresh": "u32 (struct sock *) bictcp_recalc_ssthresh/prog_id:141", "cong_avoid": "void (struct sock *, u32, u32) bictcp_cong_avoid/prog_id:140", "set_state": "void (struct sock *, u8) bictcp_state/prog_id:142", "cwnd_event": "void (struct sock *, enum tcp_ca_event) bictcp_cwnd_event/prog_id:139", "in_ack_event": "void (struct sock *, u32) 0", "undo_cwnd": "u32 (struct sock *) tcp_reno_undo_cwnd/prog_id:144", "pkts_acked": "void (struct sock *, const struct ack_sample *) bictcp_acked/prog_id:143", "min_tso_segs": "u32 (struct sock *) 0", "sndbuf_expand": "u32 (struct sock *) 0", "cong_control": "void (struct sock *, const struct rate_sample *) 0", "get_info": "size_t (struct sock *, u32, int *, union tcp_cc_info *) 0", "name": "bpf_cubic", "owner": 0 } } } ] Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200318171656.129650-1-kafai@fb.com