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outdated list in the header file.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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Quentin Monnet