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| author | Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> | 2018-05-14 15:42:32 +0200 |
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| committer | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2018-05-15 08:02:58 +0200 |
| commit | b7a27c3aafa252d1e416c223cb97c123de4ed28a (patch) | |
| tree | 74a4e7001207d4d670159073d7438986466216a2 /Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst | |
| parent | bpf, doc: convert bpf_devel_QA.rst to use RST formatting (diff) | |
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bpf, doc: howto use/run the BPF selftests
I always forget howto run the BPF selftests. Thus, lets add that info
to the QA document.
Documentation was based on Cilium's documentation:
http://cilium.readthedocs.io/en/latest/bpf/#verifying-the-setup
Signed-off-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst')
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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst index 2254bdeae990..0e7c1d946e83 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst @@ -417,6 +417,33 @@ submitted by the BPF maintainers to the stable maintainers. Testing patches =============== +Q: How to run BPF selftests +--------------------------- +A: After you have booted into the newly compiled kernel, navigate to +the BPF selftests_ suite in order to test BPF functionality (current +working directory points to the root of the cloned git tree):: + + $ cd tools/testing/selftests/bpf/ + $ make + +To run the verifier tests:: + + $ sudo ./test_verifier + +The verifier tests print out all the current checks being +performed. The summary at the end of running all tests will dump +information of test successes and failures:: + + Summary: 418 PASSED, 0 FAILED + +In order to run through all BPF selftests, the following command is +needed:: + + $ sudo make run_tests + +See the kernels selftest `Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst`_ +document for further documentation. + Q: Which BPF kernel selftests version should I run my kernel against? --------------------------------------------------------------------- A: If you run a kernel ``xyz``, then always run the BPF kernel selftests @@ -607,5 +634,7 @@ when: .. _netdev FAQ: ../networking/netdev-FAQ.txt .. _samples/bpf/: ../../samples/bpf/ .. _selftests: ../../tools/testing/selftests/bpf/ +.. _Documentation/dev-tools/kselftest.rst: + https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/dev-tools/kselftest.html Happy BPF hacking! |