[PATCH bpf-next 0/6] bpftool: Allow to select sections and filter probes

From: Michal Rostecki
Date: Tue Feb 18 2020 - 14:02:35 EST


This patch series extend the "bpftool feature" subcommand with the
new positional arguments:

- "section", which allows to select a specific section of probes (i.e.
"system_config", "program_types", "map_types");
- "filter_in", which allows to select only probes which matches the
given regex pattern;
- "filter_out", which allows to filter out probes which do not match the
given regex pattern.

The main motivation behind those changes is ability the fact that some
probes (for example those related to "trace" or "write_user" helpers)
emit dmesg messages which might be confusing for people who are running
on production environments. For details see the Cilium issue[0].

[0] https://github.com/cilium/cilium/issues/10048

Michal Rostecki (6):
bpftool: Move out sections to separate functions
bpftool: Allow to select a specific section to probe
bpftool: Add arguments for filtering in and filtering out probes
bpftool: Update documentation of "bpftool feature" command
bpftool: Update bash completion for "bpftool feature" command
selftests/bpf: Add test for "bpftool feature" command

.../bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-feature.rst | 37 +-
tools/bpf/bpftool/bash-completion/bpftool | 32 +-
tools/bpf/bpftool/feature.c | 592 +++++++++++++-----
tools/testing/selftests/.gitignore | 5 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 3 +-
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_bpftool.py | 294 +++++++++
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_bpftool.sh | 5 +
7 files changed, 811 insertions(+), 157 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_bpftool.py
create mode 100755 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_bpftool.sh

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