Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 4/6] bpf: enable bpf syscall on x64 and i386

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Stephen Hemminger
<stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Per discussion at Kernel Summit. Every new syscall requires
> a manual page and test programs. We have had too many new syscalls
> that are DOA.

There is verifier testsuite that is testing eBPF verifier from userspace
via bpf syscall. Also there are multiple examples and libbpf.
I think test coverage for bpf syscall is quite substantial already.

As far as manpage I already mentioned my plan in the other thread.
I will do it when stuff lands, since writing docs in english is the most
difficult part of these patches. I already rewrote Documentation/../filter.txt
several times. Even once Kees noticed discrepancies there when
interface changed from map_id to map_fd.
To do a manpage I'll use a help from tech writer, since I want it to
be better than docs I put in Documentation/...
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