libbpf: Configure log verbosity with env variable

Configure logging verbosity by setting LIBBPF_LOG_LEVEL environment
variable, which is applied only to default logger. Once user set their
custom logging callback, it is up to them to handle filtering.

Signed-off-by: Mykyta Yatsenko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/[email protected]

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
index 5401f2df463d..d1627a2ca30b 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c
@@ -229,7 +229,30 @@ static const char * const prog_type_name[] = {
 static int __base_pr(enum libbpf_print_level level, const char *format,
 		     va_list args)
 {
-	if (level == LIBBPF_DEBUG)
+	const char *env_var = "LIBBPF_LOG_LEVEL";
+	static enum libbpf_print_level min_level = LIBBPF_INFO;
+	static bool initialized;
+
+	if (!initialized) {
+		char *verbosity;
+
+		initialized = true;
+		verbosity = getenv(env_var);
+		if (verbosity) {
+			if (strcasecmp(verbosity, "warn") == 0)
+				min_level = LIBBPF_WARN;
+			else if (strcasecmp(verbosity, "debug") == 0)
+				min_level = LIBBPF_DEBUG;
+			else if (strcasecmp(verbosity, "info") == 0)
+				min_level = LIBBPF_INFO;
+			else
+				fprintf(stderr, "libbpf: unrecognized '%s' envvar value: '%s', should be one of 'warn', 'debug', or 'info'.\n",
+					env_var, verbosity);
+		}
+	}
+
+	/* if too verbose, skip logging  */
+	if (level > min_level)
 		return 0;
 
 	return vfprintf(stderr, format, args);