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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 net-next 4/6] bpf: enable bpf syscall on x64 and i386
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 09:46:55 +0200
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Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
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* Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Stephen Hemminger
> <stephen@networkplumber.org> 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.

This is in tools/bpf/, right?

Thanks,

	Ingo