Commit 04caa489 authored by Daniel Borkmann's avatar Daniel Borkmann Committed by David S. Miller

net: filter: doc: add section for BPF test suite

Mention the recently added test suite in the documentation file.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent b1fcd35c
......@@ -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
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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
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