History log of /linux-master/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-perf.rst
Revision Date Author Comments
# b6231815 15-Nov-2021 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

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outdated list in the header file.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


# 43448428 15-Nov-2021 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

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


# c07ba629 30-Jul-2021 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

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


# 18841da9 10-Sep-2020 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

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


# f28ef96d 09-Sep-2020 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

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


# c8caa0bb 11-May-2020 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

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


# 775bc8ad 24-May-2019 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

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>


# ca253339 25-Apr-2019 Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>

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>


# 88b3eed8 12-Apr-2019 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

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>


# 49eb7ab3 17-Jan-2019 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

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>


# f98e46a2 08-Nov-2018 Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>

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>


# b04df400 24-May-2018 Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>

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>