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| author |   David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-05-23 16:48:50 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-05-23 16:48:50 -0400 |
| commit | be65de7174123e02477bd488db1a657caf0f9947 (patch) | |
| tree | ef3101980fef5d2f580026d96c78b40fe007b43b /Documentation/networking/filter.txt | |
| parent | Merge branch 'inet_csums_part3' (diff) | |
| parent | net: filter: add test case for jump with holes and ret x variants (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-be65de7174123e02477bd488db1a657caf0f9947.tar.xz linux-dev-be65de7174123e02477bd488db1a657caf0f9947.zip | |
Merge branch 'filter-next'
Daniel Borkmann says:
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BPF updates
These were still in my queue. Please see individual patches for
details.
I have rebased these on top of current net-next with Andrew's
gcc union fixup [1] applied to avoid dealing with an unnecessary
merge conflict.
[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/351577/
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt index 748fd385535d..dc7dcc8c8184 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt @@ -833,6 +833,20 @@ loops and other CFG validation; second step starts from the first insn and descends all possible paths. It simulates execution of every insn and observes the state change of registers and stack. +Testing +------- + +Next to the BPF toolchain, the kernel also ships a test module that contains +various test cases for classic and internal BPF that can be executed against +the BPF interpreter and JIT compiler. It can be found in lib/test_bpf.c and +enabled via Kconfig: + + CONFIG_TEST_BPF=m + +After the module has been built and installed, the test suite can be executed +via insmod or modprobe against 'test_bpf' module. Results of the test cases +including timings in nsec can be found in the kernel log (dmesg). + Misc ---- |