linux/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-iter.rst
Yonghong Song d8793aca70 tools/bpftool: Add bpftool support for bpf map element iterator
The optional parameter "map MAP" can be added to "bpftool iter"
command to create a bpf iterator for map elements. For example,
  bpftool iter pin ./prog.o /sys/fs/bpf/p1 map id 333

For map element bpf iterator "map MAP" parameter is required.
Otherwise, bpf link creation will return an error.

Quentin Monnet kindly provided bash-completion implementation
for new "map MAP" option.

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200723184119.590799-1-yhs@fb.com
2020-07-25 20:16:33 -07:00

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============
bpftool-iter
============
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tool to create BPF iterators
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SYNOPSIS
========
**bpftool** [*OPTIONS*] **iter** *COMMAND*
*COMMANDS* := { **pin** | **help** }
ITER COMMANDS
===================
| **bpftool** **iter pin** *OBJ* *PATH* [**map** *MAP*]
| **bpftool** **iter help**
|
| *OBJ* := /a/file/of/bpf_iter_target.o
| *MAP* := { **id** *MAP_ID* | **pinned** *FILE* }
DESCRIPTION
===========
**bpftool iter pin** *OBJ* *PATH* [**map** *MAP*]
A bpf iterator combines a kernel iterating of
particular kernel data (e.g., tasks, bpf_maps, etc.)
and a bpf program called for each kernel data object
(e.g., one task, one bpf_map, etc.). User space can
*read* kernel iterator output through *read()* syscall.
The *pin* command creates a bpf iterator from *OBJ*,
and pin it to *PATH*. The *PATH* should be located
in *bpffs* mount. It must not contain a dot
character ('.'), which is reserved for future extensions
of *bpffs*.
Map element bpf iterator requires an additional parameter
*MAP* so bpf program can iterate over map elements for
that map. User can have a bpf program in kernel to run
with each map element, do checking, filtering, aggregation,
etc. without copying data to user space.
User can then *cat PATH* to see the bpf iterator output.
**bpftool iter help**
Print short help message.
OPTIONS
=======
-h, --help
Print short generic help message (similar to **bpftool help**).
-V, --version
Print version number (similar to **bpftool version**).
-d, --debug
Print all logs available, even debug-level information. This
includes logs from libbpf as well as from the verifier, when
attempting to load programs.
EXAMPLES
========
**# bpftool iter pin bpf_iter_netlink.o /sys/fs/bpf/my_netlink**
::
Create a file-based bpf iterator from bpf_iter_netlink.o and pin it
to /sys/fs/bpf/my_netlink
**# bpftool iter pin bpf_iter_hashmap.o /sys/fs/bpf/my_hashmap map id 20**
::
Create a file-based bpf iterator from bpf_iter_hashmap.o and map with
id 20, and pin it to /sys/fs/bpf/my_hashmap
SEE ALSO
========
**bpf**\ (2),
**bpf-helpers**\ (7),
**bpftool**\ (8),
**bpftool-btf**\ (8),
**bpftool-cgroup**\ (8),
**bpftool-feature**\ (8),
**bpftool-gen**\ (8),
**bpftool-link**\ (8),
**bpftool-map**\ (8),
**bpftool-net**\ (8),
**bpftool-perf**\ (8),
**bpftool-prog**\ (8),
**bpftool-struct_ops**\ (8)