Re: [v3,bpf-next] bpftool: Restore support for BPF offload-enabled feature probing

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2022-03-10 13:18 UTC+0100 ~ Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Commit 1a56c18e6c2e4e74 ("bpftool: Stop supporting BPF offload-enabled
> feature probing") removed the support to probe for BPF offload features.
> This is still something that is useful for NFP NIC that can support
> offloading of BPF programs.
> 
> The reason for the dropped support was that libbpf starting with v1.0
> would drop support for passing the ifindex to the BPF prog/map/helper
> feature probing APIs. In order to keep this useful feature for NFP
> restore the functionality by moving it directly into bpftool.
> 
> The code restored is a simplified version of the code that existed in
> libbpf which supposed passing the ifindex. The simplification is that it
> only targets the cases where ifindex is given and call into libbpf for
> the cases where it's not.
> 
> Before restoring support for probing offload features:
> 
>   # bpftool feature probe dev ens4np0
>   Scanning system call availability...
>   bpf() syscall is available
> 
>   Scanning eBPF program types...
> 
>   Scanning eBPF map types...
> 
>   Scanning eBPF helper functions...
>   eBPF helpers supported for program type sched_cls:
>   eBPF helpers supported for program type xdp:
> 
>   Scanning miscellaneous eBPF features...
>   Large program size limit is NOT available
>   Bounded loop support is NOT available
>   ISA extension v2 is NOT available
>   ISA extension v3 is NOT available
> 
> With support for probing offload features restored:
> 
>   # bpftool feature probe dev ens4np0
>   Scanning system call availability...
>   bpf() syscall is available
> 
>   Scanning eBPF program types...
>   eBPF program_type sched_cls is available
>   eBPF program_type xdp is available
> 
>   Scanning eBPF map types...
>   eBPF map_type hash is available
>   eBPF map_type array is available
> 
>   Scanning eBPF helper functions...
>   eBPF helpers supported for program type sched_cls:
>   	- bpf_map_lookup_elem
>   	- bpf_get_prandom_u32
>   	- bpf_perf_event_output
>   eBPF helpers supported for program type xdp:
>   	- bpf_map_lookup_elem
>   	- bpf_get_prandom_u32
>   	- bpf_perf_event_output
>   	- bpf_xdp_adjust_head
>   	- bpf_xdp_adjust_tail
> 
>   Scanning miscellaneous eBPF features...
>   Large program size limit is NOT available
>   Bounded loop support is NOT available
>   ISA extension v2 is NOT available
>   ISA extension v3 is NOT available
> 
> Signed-off-by: Niklas Söderlund <niklas.soderlund@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me, thank you!
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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