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From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	eric.dumazet@gmail.com, jasowang@redhat.com,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] filter: add minimal BPF JIT emitted image disassembler
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 09:50:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51497861.6020804@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363748314.31336.30.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>

On 03/20/2013 03:58 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 14:28 +0100, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>> This is a minimal stand-alone user space helper, that allows for debugging or
>> verification of emitted BPF JIT images. This is in particular useful for
>> emitted opcode debugging, since minor bugs in the JIT compiler can be fatal.
>> The disassembler is architecture generic and uses libopcodes and libbfd.
> [...]
>> ---
>>   scripts/bpf_jit_disasm.c | 216 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   1 file changed, 216 insertions(+)
>>   create mode 100644 scripts/bpf_jit_disasm.c
> [...]
>
> This might belong in tools.  scripts is mostly for build scripts now.

Ok, I thought this would be overkill, since it's just a small C program
(unlike perf, etc) and there are also other things present in scripts/
like Coccinelle scripts etc. But, sure we could do this. What would you
suggest? tools/net/bpf_jit_disasm.c?

      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-20  8:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-19 13:28 [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: filter: BPF updates Daniel Borkmann
2013-03-19 13:28 ` [PATCH net-next 1/4] flow_keys: include thoff into flow_keys for later usage Daniel Borkmann
2013-03-19 13:55   ` Eric Dumazet
2013-03-19 14:01     ` Daniel Borkmann
2013-03-19 13:28 ` [PATCH net-next 2/4] net: flow_dissector: add __skb_get_poff to get a start offset to payload Daniel Borkmann
2013-03-19 13:28 ` [PATCH net-next 3/4] filter: add ANC_PAY_OFFSET instruction for loading payload start offset Daniel Borkmann
2013-03-19 13:28 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] filter: add minimal BPF JIT emitted image disassembler Daniel Borkmann
2013-03-20  2:58   ` Ben Hutchings
2013-03-20  8:50     ` Daniel Borkmann [this message]

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