This is a followup to discussion around RFC patchset "bpf: keep track of prog verification stats" [0]. The RFC elaborates on my usecase, but to summarize: keeping track of verifier stats for programs as they - and the kernels they run on - change over time can help developers of individual programs and BPF kernel folks. The RFC added a verif_stats to the uapi which contained most of the info which verifier prints currently. Feedback here was to avoid polluting uapi with stats that might be meaningless after major changes to the verifier, but that insn_processed or conceptually similar number would exist in the long term and was safe to expose. So let's expose just insn_processed via bpf_prog_info and fdinfo for now and explore good ways of getting more complicated stats in the future. [0] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210920151112.3770991-1-davemarchevsky@xxxxxx/ Dave Marchevsky (2): bpf: add insn_processed to bpf_prog_info and fdinfo selftests/bpf: add verif_stats test include/linux/bpf.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 1 + kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 8 +++-- kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 1 + tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 1 + .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/verif_stats.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++ 6 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/verif_stats.c -- 2.30.2
