netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpftool: allow match by name prefixes

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Message-ID: <c0302d0f-e77b-97a0-13f7-50e09ac92600@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 30 Dec 2019 21:28:52 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
To:     Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@...nge.com>, bpf@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     paul.chaignon@...il.com, Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        Song Liu <songliubraving@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next] bpftool: allow match by name prefixes

On 12/27/19 9:16 AM, Paul Chaignon wrote:
> This patch extends bpftool to support lookup of programs and maps by
> name prefixes (instead of full name only), as follows.
> 
>   $ ./bpftool prog show name tcp_
>   19: kprobe  name tcp_cleanup_rbu  tag 639217cf5b184808  gpl
>       [...]
>   20: kprobe  name tcp_sendmsg  tag 6546b9784163ee69  gpl
>       [...]
> 

This should be more generic in matches - not just the names beginning
with. Full regex might not be warranted, but certainly more than just
begins with. e.g., handling *tcp*.