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Quentin Monnet
b623181520 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outdated list in the header file.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
2021-11-16 13:56:22 +01:00
Quentin Monnet
4344842836 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
2021-11-16 13:56:22 +01:00
Quentin Monnet
c07ba629df 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
2021-07-30 15:40:27 -07:00
Quentin Monnet
18841da981 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
2020-09-10 20:10:45 -07:00
Quentin Monnet
f28ef96d7b 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
2020-09-10 11:16:46 -07:00
Quentin Monnet
c8caa0bb4b 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
2020-05-11 21:20:50 +02:00
Quentin Monnet
775bc8ada8 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>
2019-05-28 11:02:21 +02:00
Andrii Nakryiko
ca253339af 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>
2019-04-25 21:45:14 -07:00
Quentin Monnet
88b3eed805 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>
2019-04-16 10:13:32 +02:00
Quentin Monnet
49eb7ab3b2 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>
2019-01-22 22:15:40 -08:00
Quentin Monnet
f98e46a251 tools: bpftool: update references to other man pages in documentation
Update references to other bpftool man pages at the bottom of each
manual page. Also reference the "bpf(2)" and "bpf-helpers(7)" man pages.

References are sorted by number of man section, then by
"prog-and-map-go-first", the other pages in alphabetical order.

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>
2018-11-09 08:20:52 +01:00
Yonghong Song
b04df400c3 tools/bpftool: add perf subcommand
The new command "bpftool perf [show | list]" will traverse
all processes under /proc, and if any fd is associated
with a perf event, it will print out related perf event
information. Documentation is also added.

Below is an example to show the results using bcc commands.
Running the following 4 bcc commands:
  kprobe:     trace.py '__x64_sys_nanosleep'
  kretprobe:  trace.py 'r::__x64_sys_nanosleep'
  tracepoint: trace.py 't:syscalls:sys_enter_nanosleep'
  uprobe:     trace.py 'p:/home/yhs/a.out:main'

The bpftool command line and result:

  $ bpftool perf
  pid 21711  fd 5: prog_id 5  kprobe  func __x64_sys_write  offset 0
  pid 21765  fd 5: prog_id 7  kretprobe  func __x64_sys_nanosleep  offset 0
  pid 21767  fd 5: prog_id 8  tracepoint  sys_enter_nanosleep
  pid 21800  fd 5: prog_id 9  uprobe  filename /home/yhs/a.out  offset 1159

  $ bpftool -j perf
  [{"pid":21711,"fd":5,"prog_id":5,"fd_type":"kprobe","func":"__x64_sys_write","offset":0}, \
   {"pid":21765,"fd":5,"prog_id":7,"fd_type":"kretprobe","func":"__x64_sys_nanosleep","offset":0}, \
   {"pid":21767,"fd":5,"prog_id":8,"fd_type":"tracepoint","tracepoint":"sys_enter_nanosleep"}, \
   {"pid":21800,"fd":5,"prog_id":9,"fd_type":"uprobe","filename":"/home/yhs/a.out","offset":1159}]

  $ bpftool prog
  5: kprobe  name probe___x64_sys  tag e495a0c82f2c7a8d  gpl
	  loaded_at 2018-05-15T04:46:37-0700  uid 0
	  xlated 200B  not jited  memlock 4096B  map_ids 4
  7: kprobe  name probe___x64_sys  tag f2fdee479a503abf  gpl
	  loaded_at 2018-05-15T04:48:32-0700  uid 0
	  xlated 200B  not jited  memlock 4096B  map_ids 7
  8: tracepoint  name tracepoint__sys  tag 5390badef2395fcf  gpl
	  loaded_at 2018-05-15T04:48:48-0700  uid 0
	  xlated 200B  not jited  memlock 4096B  map_ids 8
  9: kprobe  name probe_main_1  tag 0a87bdc2e2953b6d  gpl
	  loaded_at 2018-05-15T04:49:52-0700  uid 0
	  xlated 200B  not jited  memlock 4096B  map_ids 9

  $ ps ax | grep "python ./trace.py"
  21711 pts/0    T      0:03 python ./trace.py __x64_sys_write
  21765 pts/0    S+     0:00 python ./trace.py r::__x64_sys_nanosleep
  21767 pts/2    S+     0:00 python ./trace.py t:syscalls:sys_enter_nanosleep
  21800 pts/3    S+     0:00 python ./trace.py p:/home/yhs/a.out:main
  22374 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep --color=auto python ./trace.py

Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2018-05-24 18:18:20 -07:00