linux/tools
Quentin Monnet 82b8cf0acc tools: bpftool: Print optional built-in features along with version
Bpftool has a number of features that can be included or left aside
during compilation. This includes:

- Support for libbfd, providing the disassembler for JIT-compiled
  programs.
- Support for BPF skeletons, used for profiling programs or iterating on
  the PIDs of processes associated with BPF objects.

In order to make it easy for users to understand what features were
compiled for a given bpftool binary, print the status of the two
features above when showing the version number for bpftool ("bpftool -V"
or "bpftool version"). Document this in the main manual page. Example
invocations:

    $ bpftool version
    ./bpftool v5.9.0-rc1
    features: libbfd, skeletons

    $ bpftool -p version
    {
        "version": "5.9.0-rc1",
        "features": {
            "libbfd": true,
            "skeletons": true
        }
    }

Some other parameters are optional at compilation
("DISASM_FOUR_ARGS_SIGNATURE", LIBCAP support) but they do not impact
significantly bpftool's behaviour from a user's point of view, so their
status is not reported.

Available commands and supported program types depend on the version
number, and are therefore not reported either. Note that they are
already available, albeit without JSON, via bpftool's help messages.

v3:
- Use a simple list instead of boolean values for plain output.

v2:
- Fix JSON (object instead or array for the features).

Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200909162500.17010-2-quentin@isovalent.com
2020-09-10 11:16:46 -07:00
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accounting
arch tools headers kvm s390: Sync headers with the kernel sources 2020-08-12 08:52:32 -03:00
bootconfig tools/bootconfig: Add testcases for value override operator 2020-08-03 16:22:29 -04:00
bpf tools: bpftool: Print optional built-in features along with version 2020-09-10 11:16:46 -07:00
build tools, bpf/build: Cleanup feature files on make clean 2020-08-28 14:04:27 +02:00
cgroup tools/cgroup: add memcg_slabinfo.py tool 2020-08-07 11:33:25 -07:00
debugging
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio tools: gpio: fix spurious close warning in gpio-event-mon 2020-07-12 10:22:01 +02:00
hv tools: hv: change http to https in hv_kvp_daemon.c 2020-07-06 10:46:23 +00:00
iio
include tools, bpf: Synchronise BPF UAPI header with tools 2020-09-07 16:31:18 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: change the poll type to be 32-bits 2020-06-21 20:44:00 -06:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib libbpf: Fix potential multiplication overflow 2020-09-04 14:35:12 +02:00
memory-model These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
nfsd
objtool Misc updates: 2020-08-03 14:45:33 -07:00
pci
pcmcia
perf perf: Stop using deprecated bpf_program__title() 2020-09-09 11:28:28 -07:00
power ACPI updates for 5.9-rc1 2020-08-03 20:37:22 -07:00
scripts
spi spi: tools: Make default_tx/rx and input_tx static 2020-06-11 16:27:24 +01:00
testing selftests, bpftool: Add bpftool (and eBPF helpers) documentation build 2020-09-10 11:02:45 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb tools: usb: usbip: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-07-15 16:33:51 +02:00
virtio virtio: fixes, features 2020-08-11 14:34:17 -07:00
vm tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line 2020-06-03 20:09:49 -07:00
wmi
Makefile bpf: Compile resolve_btfids tool at kernel compilation start 2020-07-13 10:42:02 -07:00