Development and testing of networking bpf programs is quite cumbersome. Especially tricky are XDP programs that attach to real netdevices and program development feels like working on the car engine while the car is in motion. Another problem is ongoing changes to upstream llvm core that can introduce an optimization that verifier will not recognize. llvm bpf backend tests have no ability to run the programs. To improve this situation introduce BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN command to test and performance benchmark bpf programs. It achieves several goals: - development of xdp and skb based bpf programs can be done in a canned environment with unit tests - program performance optimizations can be benchmarked outside of networking core (without driver and skb costs) - continuous testing of upstream changes is finally practical
Patches 3,5,6 add C based test cases of various complexity to cover some sched_cls and xdp features. More tests will be added in the future. The tests were run on centos7 only. For now the framework supports only skb and xdp programs. In the future it can be extended to socket_filter and tracing program types. More details are in individual patches. Alexei Starovoitov (6): bpf: introduce BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN command tools/lib/bpf: add support for BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN command selftests/bpf: add a test for overlapping packet range checks tools/lib/bpf: expose bpf_program__set_type() selftests/bpf: add a test for basic XDP functionality selftests/bpf: add l4 load balancer test based on sched_cls include/linux/bpf.h | 7 + include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 12 + kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 27 +- net/Makefile | 2 +- net/bpf/Makefile | 1 + net/bpf/test_run.c | 172 ++++++++ net/core/filter.c | 5 + tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 24 ++ tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c | 24 ++ tools/lib/bpf/bpf.h | 4 +- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 3 +- tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h | 1 + tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 18 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_iptunnel_common.h | 37 ++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_l4lb.c | 474 +++++++++++++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_pkt_access.c | 64 +++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs.c | 284 ++++++++++++ tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_xdp.c | 236 ++++++++++ 18 files changed, 1385 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) create mode 100644 net/bpf/Makefile create mode 100644 net/bpf/test_run.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_iptunnel_common.h create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_l4lb.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_pkt_access.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs.c create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_xdp.c -- 2.9.3
