The samples/bpf directory in the kernel tree started out as a way of showcasing different aspects of BPF functionality by writing small utility programs for each feature. However, as the BPF subsystem has matured, the preferred way of including userspace code with a feature has become the BPF selftests, which also have the benefit of being consistently run as part of the BPF CI system. As a result of this shift, the utilities in samples/bpf have seen little love, and have slowly bitrotted. There have been sporadic cleanup patches over the years, but it's clear that the utilities are far from maintained. For XDP in particular, some of the utilities have been used as benchmarking aids when implementing new kernel features, which seems to be the main reason they have stuck around; any updates the utilities have seen have been targeted at this use case. However, as the BPF subsystem as a whole has moved on, it has become increasingly difficult to incorporate new features into these utilities because they predate most of the modern BPF features (such as kfuncs and BTF). Rather than try to update these utilities and keep maintaining them in the kernel tree, we have ported the useful features of the utilities to the xdp-tools package. In the porting process we also updated the utilities to take advantage of modern BPF features, integrated them with libxdp, and polished the user interface. As these utilities are standalone tools, maintaining them out of tree is simpler, and we plan to keep maintaining them in the xdp-tools repo. To direct users of these utilities to the right place, this series removes the utilities from samples/bpf, leaving in place only a couple of utilities whose functionality have not yet been ported to xdp-tools. The xdp-tools repository is located on Github at the following URL: https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tools The commits in the series removes one utility each, explaining how the equivalent functionality can be obtained with xdp-tools. v2: - Add equivalent xdp-tools commands for each removed utility v3: - Add link to xdp-tools in the README Toke Høiland-Jørgensen (7): samples/bpf: Remove the xdp_monitor utility samples/bpf: Remove the xdp_redirect* utilities samples/bpf: Remove the xdp_rxq_info utility samples/bpf: Remove the xdp1 and xdp2 utilities samples/bpf: Remove the xdp_sample_pkts utility samples/bpf: Cleanup .gitignore samples/bpf: Add note to README about the XDP utilities moved to xdp-tools samples/bpf/.gitignore | 12 - samples/bpf/Makefile | 48 +- samples/bpf/README.rst | 6 + samples/bpf/xdp1_kern.c | 100 ---- samples/bpf/xdp1_user.c | 166 ------ samples/bpf/xdp2_kern.c | 125 ----- samples/bpf/xdp_monitor.bpf.c | 8 - samples/bpf/xdp_monitor_user.c | 118 ----- samples/bpf/xdp_redirect.bpf.c | 49 -- samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_cpu.bpf.c | 539 ------------------- samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_cpu_user.c | 559 -------------------- samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map.bpf.c | 97 ---- samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map_multi.bpf.c | 77 --- samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map_multi_user.c | 232 -------- samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map_user.c | 228 -------- samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_user.c | 172 ------ samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_kern.c | 140 ----- samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c | 614 ---------------------- samples/bpf/xdp_sample_pkts_kern.c | 57 -- samples/bpf/xdp_sample_pkts_user.c | 196 ------- 20 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3536 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp1_kern.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp1_user.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp2_kern.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_monitor.bpf.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_monitor_user.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_redirect.bpf.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_cpu.bpf.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_cpu_user.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map.bpf.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map_multi.bpf.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map_multi_user.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_map_user.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_redirect_user.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_kern.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_rxq_info_user.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_sample_pkts_kern.c delete mode 100644 samples/bpf/xdp_sample_pkts_user.c -- 2.41.0
