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authorAndrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>2019-04-25 15:30:08 -0700
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2019-04-25 21:45:14 -0700
commitc93cc69004df340d71a9ab3433b8e5c9fd1fca7a (patch)
treeacbf09b741504f8bb1a1250e26a4c913d0ab5c18 /tools/bpf/bpftool/main.c
parent77d764263d1165a2edf13735915fc39bc44abf1d (diff)
downloadlinux-c93cc69004df340d71a9ab3433b8e5c9fd1fca7a.tar.gz
bpftool: add ability to dump BTF types
Add new `btf dump` sub-command to bpftool. It allows to dump
human-readable low-level BTF types representation of BTF types. BTF can
be retrieved from few different sources:
  - from BTF object by ID;
  - from PROG, if it has associated BTF;
  - from MAP, if it has associated BTF data; it's possible to narrow
    down types to either key type, value type, both, or all BTF types;
  - from ELF file (.BTF section).

Output format mostly follows BPF verifier log format with few notable
exceptions:
  - all the type/field/param/etc names are enclosed in single quotes to
    allow easier grepping and to stand out a little bit more;
  - FUNC_PROTO output follows STRUCT/UNION/ENUM format of having one
    line per each argument; this is more uniform and allows easy
    grepping, as opposed to succinct, but inconvenient format that BPF
    verifier log is using.

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>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/bpf/bpftool/main.c')
-rw-r--r--tools/bpf/bpftool/main.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/main.c b/tools/bpf/bpftool/main.c
index a9d5e9e6a732..1ac1fc520e6a 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/main.c
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/main.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static int do_help(int argc, char **argv)
 		"       %s batch file FILE\n"
 		"       %s version\n"
 		"\n"
-		"       OBJECT := { prog | map | cgroup | perf | net | feature }\n"
+		"       OBJECT := { prog | map | cgroup | perf | net | feature | btf }\n"
 		"       " HELP_SPEC_OPTIONS "\n"
 		"",
 		bin_name, bin_name, bin_name);
@@ -188,6 +188,7 @@ static const struct cmd cmds[] = {
 	{ "perf",	do_perf },
 	{ "net",	do_net },
 	{ "feature",	do_feature },
+	{ "btf",	do_btf },
 	{ "version",	do_version },
 	{ 0 }
 };