linux/tools
Quentin Monnet 0c90f2243e tools: bpftool: make it easier to feed hex bytes to bpftool
bpftool uses hexadecimal values when it dumps map contents:

    # bpftool map dump id 1337
    key: ff 13 37 ff  value: a1 b2 c3 d4 ff ff ff ff
    Found 1 element

In order to lookup or update values with bpftool, the natural reflex is
then to copy and paste the values to the command line, and to try to run
something like:

    # bpftool map update id 1337 key ff 13 37 ff \
            value 00 00 00 00 00 00 1a 2b
    Error: error parsing byte: ff

bpftool complains, because it uses strtoul() with a 0 base to parse the
bytes, and that without a "0x" prefix, the bytes are considered as
decimal values (or even octal if they start with "0").

To feed hexadecimal values instead, one needs to add "0x" prefixes
everywhere necessary:

    # bpftool map update id 1337 key 0xff 0x13 0x37 0xff \
            value 0 0 0 0 0 0 0x1a 0x2b

To make it easier to use hexadecimal values, add an optional "hex"
keyword to put after "key" or "value" to tell bpftool to consider the
digits as hexadecimal. We can now do:

    # bpftool map update id 1337 key hex ff 13 37 ff \
            value hex 0 0 0 0 0 0 1a 2b

Without the "hex" keyword, the bytes are still parsed according to
normal integer notation (decimal if no prefix, or hexadecimal or octal
if "0x" or "0" prefix is used, respectively).

The patch also add related documentation and bash completion for the
"hex" keyword.

Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Suggested-by: David Beckett <david.beckett@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2018-04-18 14:49:27 +02:00
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accounting
arch arch: remove obsolete architecture ports 2018-04-02 20:20:12 -07:00
bpf tools: bpftool: make it easier to feed hex bytes to bpftool 2018-04-18 14:49:27 +02:00
build perf build: Force llvm/clang test compile output to .make.output 2018-03-08 11:30:50 -03:00
cgroup tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
firewire
gpio Linux 4.16-rc5 2018-03-18 17:48:59 +01:00
hv tools: hv: include string.h in hv_fcopy_daemon 2018-03-06 09:57:16 -08:00
iio tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
include xarray: add the xa_lock to the radix_tree_root 2018-04-11 10:28:39 -07:00
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: Remove unused function 2018-03-28 22:47:06 +02:00
laptop tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
leds tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
lib libbpf: Type functions for raw tracepoints 2018-04-18 14:39:24 +02:00
memory-model tools/memory-model: Finish the removal of rb-dep, smp_read_barrier_depends(), and lockless_dereference() 2018-03-10 10:22:23 +01:00
nfsd
objtool objtool: Add Clang support 2018-03-27 08:21:29 +02:00
pci
pcmcia
perf arch: remove obsolete architecture ports 2018-04-02 20:20:12 -07:00
power Power management updates for 4.17-rc1 2018-04-03 10:45:39 -07:00
scripts arch: remove tile port 2018-03-16 10:56:03 +01:00
spi tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
testing selftest: tc_flower: add testcase for 'ip_flags' 2018-04-17 13:41:54 -04:00
thermal/tmon tools/thermal: tmon: fix for segfault 2018-03-27 09:51:23 +02:00
time
usb usbip: tools: usbipd: exclude exported devices from exportable device list 2018-03-22 13:08:20 +01:00
virtio ptr_ring: fix build 2018-03-20 03:17:37 +02:00
vm tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
wmi tools: fix cross-compile var clobbering 2018-02-21 15:35:42 -08:00
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