From: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
To: acme@kernel.org, ast@kernel.org, andrii@kernel.org,
daniel@iogearbox.net, quentin@isovalent.com, jolsa@kernel.org
Cc: martin.lau@linux.dev, song@kernel.org, yhs@fb.com,
john.fastabend@gmail.com, kpsingh@kernel.org, sdf@google.com,
haoluo@google.com, mykolal@fb.com, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 8/9] bpftool: update doc to describe bpftool btf dump .. format meta
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2023 18:17:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230616171728.530116-9-alan.maguire@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230616171728.530116-1-alan.maguire@oracle.com>
...and provide an example of output.
Signed-off-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
---
tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-btf.rst | 16 +++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-btf.rst b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-btf.rst
index 342716f74ec4..6dd779dddbde 100644
--- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-btf.rst
+++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-btf.rst
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ BTF COMMANDS
| **bpftool** **btf help**
|
| *BTF_SRC* := { **id** *BTF_ID* | **prog** *PROG* | **map** *MAP* [{**key** | **value** | **kv** | **all**}] | **file** *FILE* }
-| *FORMAT* := { **raw** | **c** }
+| *FORMAT* := { **raw** | **c** | **meta** }
| *MAP* := { **id** *MAP_ID* | **pinned** *FILE* }
| *PROG* := { **id** *PROG_ID* | **pinned** *FILE* | **tag** *PROG_TAG* }
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ DESCRIPTION
typically produced by clang or pahole.
**format** option can be used to override default (raw)
- output format. Raw (**raw**) or C-syntax (**c**) output
- formats are supported.
+ output format. Raw (**raw**), C-syntax (**c**) and
+ BTF metadata (**meta**) formats are supported.
**bpftool btf help**
Print short help message.
@@ -266,3 +266,13 @@ All the standard ways to specify map or program are supported:
[104859] FUNC 'smbalert_work' type_id=9695 linkage=static
[104860] FUNC 'smbus_alert' type_id=71367 linkage=static
[104861] FUNC 'smbus_do_alert' type_id=84827 linkage=static
+
+
+ **# bpftool btf dump file vmlinux format meta**
+
+ ::
+ size 4904369
+ magic 0xeb9f version 1 flags 0x0 hdr_len 24
+ type len 2893508 off 0
+ str len 2010837 off 2893508
+
--
2.39.3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-06-16 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-16 17:17 [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/9] bpf: support BTF kind layout info, CRCs Alan Maguire
2023-06-16 17:17 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 1/9] btf: add kind layout encoding, crcs to UAPI Alan Maguire
2023-06-17 0:39 ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-06-22 22:02 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2023-07-03 13:42 ` Alan Maguire
2023-07-05 23:48 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2023-07-20 20:18 ` Alan Maguire
2023-06-16 17:17 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 2/9] libbpf: support handling of kind layout section in BTF Alan Maguire
2023-06-22 22:02 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2023-06-16 17:17 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 3/9] libbpf: use kind layout to compute an unknown kind size Alan Maguire
2023-06-22 22:03 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2023-06-16 17:17 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 4/9] btf: support kernel parsing of BTF with kind layout Alan Maguire
2023-06-18 13:08 ` Jiri Olsa
2023-06-20 8:40 ` Alan Maguire
2023-06-22 22:03 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2023-06-16 17:17 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 5/9] libbpf: add kind layout encoding, crc support Alan Maguire
2023-06-19 23:24 ` Yonghong Song
2023-06-20 9:09 ` Alan Maguire
2023-06-20 14:41 ` Yonghong Song
2023-06-22 22:04 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2023-06-16 17:17 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 6/9] btf: generate BTF kind layout for vmlinux/module BTF Alan Maguire
2023-06-16 18:53 ` kernel test robot
2023-06-18 13:07 ` Jiri Olsa
2023-06-20 8:46 ` Alan Maguire
2023-06-16 17:17 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 7/9] bpftool: add BTF dump "format meta" to dump header/metadata Alan Maguire
2023-06-22 22:04 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2023-06-29 14:16 ` Quentin Monnet
2023-06-16 17:17 ` Alan Maguire [this message]
2023-06-29 14:16 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 8/9] bpftool: update doc to describe bpftool btf dump .. format meta Quentin Monnet
2023-06-16 17:17 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 9/9] selftests/bpf: test kind encoding/decoding Alan Maguire
2023-06-22 23:48 ` Andrii Nakryiko
2023-06-16 17:17 ` [PATCH dwarves] dwarves: encode BTF kind layout, crcs Alan Maguire
2023-06-17 0:39 ` [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/9] bpf: support BTF kind layout info, CRCs Alexei Starovoitov
2023-06-20 8:41 ` Alan Maguire
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