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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
arch ARM: SoC fixes 2019-01-14 10:34:14 +12:00
block block: fix kerneldoc comment for blk_attempt_plug_merge() 2019-01-09 15:29:08 -07:00
certs kbuild: remove redundant target cleaning on failure 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
crypto Kconfig updates for v4.21 2018-12-29 13:03:29 -08:00
Documentation networking: Documentation: fix snmp_counters.rst Sphinx warnings 2019-01-16 13:29:54 -08:00
drivers mlxsw: spectrum_nve: Use struct_size() in kzalloc() 2019-01-16 09:12:23 -08:00
firmware kbuild: change filechk to surround the given command with { } 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
fs for-5.0-rc1-tag 2019-01-14 05:55:51 +12:00
include Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2019-01-16 05:13:36 +12:00
init jump_label: move 'asm goto' support test to Kconfig 2019-01-06 09:46:51 +09:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel bpf: fix a (false) compiler warning 2019-01-17 10:40:16 +01:00
lib sbitmap: Protect swap_lock from hardirq 2019-01-15 16:29:57 +12:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm/mmu_notifier: mm/rmap.c: Fix a mmu_notifier range bug in try_to_unmap_one 2019-01-10 02:58:21 -08:00
net net, decnet: use struct_size() in kzalloc() 2019-01-16 13:22:10 -08:00
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sound remove dma_zalloc_coherent 2019-01-12 10:52:40 -08:00
tools tools: bpftool: add basic probe capability, probe syscall availability 2019-01-22 22:15:40 -08:00
usr user/Makefile: Fix typo and capitalization in comment section 2018-12-11 00:18:03 +09:00
virt KVM: validate userspace input in kvm_clear_dirty_log_protect() 2019-01-11 18:38:07 +01:00
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COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS Add CREDITS entry for Shaohua Li 2019-01-04 14:27:09 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: use assignment instead of define ... endef for filechk_* rules 2019-01-06 10:22:35 +09:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Staging driver fixes for 5.0-rc2 2019-01-14 05:49:35 +12:00
Makefile Linux 5.0-rc2 2019-01-14 10:41:12 +12:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.