Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2] tools: bpftool: add "prog run" subcommand to test-run programs

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On 07/05/2019 07:54 PM, Quentin Monnet wrote:
> Add a new "bpftool prog run" subcommand to run a loaded program on input
> data (and possibly with input context) passed by the user.
> 
> Print output data (and output context if relevant) into a file or into
> the console. Print return value and duration for the test run into the
> console.
> 
> A "repeat" argument can be passed to run the program several times in a
> row.
> 
> The command does not perform any kind of verification based on program
> type (Is this program type allowed to use an input context?) or on data
> consistency (Can I work with empty input data?), this is left to the
> kernel.
> 
> Example invocation:
> 
>     # perl -e 'print "\x0" x 14' | ./bpftool prog run \
>             pinned /sys/fs/bpf/sample_ret0 \
>             data_in - data_out - repeat 5
>     0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000      | ........ ......
>     Return value: 0, duration (average): 260ns
> 
> When one of data_in or ctx_in is "-", bpftool reads from standard input,
> in binary format. Other formats (JSON, hexdump) might be supported (via
> an optional command line keyword like "data_fmt_in") in the future if
> relevant, but this would require doing more parsing in bpftool.
> 
> v2:
> - Fix argument names for function check_single_stdin(). (Yonghong)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks great, thanks for adding, applied!



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