A mirror of the official Linux kernel repository just in case
Go to file
David Vernet b66ccae01f bpf: Add libbpf logic for user-space ring buffer
Now that all of the logic is in place in the kernel to support user-space
produced ring buffers, we can add the user-space logic to libbpf. This
patch therefore adds the following public symbols to libbpf:

struct user_ring_buffer *
user_ring_buffer__new(int map_fd,
		      const struct user_ring_buffer_opts *opts);
void *user_ring_buffer__reserve(struct user_ring_buffer *rb, __u32 size);
void *user_ring_buffer__reserve_blocking(struct user_ring_buffer *rb,
                                         __u32 size, int timeout_ms);
void user_ring_buffer__submit(struct user_ring_buffer *rb, void *sample);
void user_ring_buffer__discard(struct user_ring_buffer *rb,
void user_ring_buffer__free(struct user_ring_buffer *rb);

A user-space producer must first create a struct user_ring_buffer * object
with user_ring_buffer__new(), and can then reserve samples in the
ring buffer using one of the following two symbols:

void *user_ring_buffer__reserve(struct user_ring_buffer *rb, __u32 size);
void *user_ring_buffer__reserve_blocking(struct user_ring_buffer *rb,
                                         __u32 size, int timeout_ms);

With user_ring_buffer__reserve(), a pointer to a 'size' region of the ring
buffer will be returned if sufficient space is available in the buffer.
user_ring_buffer__reserve_blocking() provides similar semantics, but will
block for up to 'timeout_ms' in epoll_wait if there is insufficient space
in the buffer. This function has the guarantee from the kernel that it will
receive at least one event-notification per invocation to
bpf_ringbuf_drain(), provided that at least one sample is drained, and the
BPF program did not pass the BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP flag to bpf_ringbuf_drain().

Once a sample is reserved, it must either be committed to the ring buffer
with user_ring_buffer__submit(), or discarded with
user_ring_buffer__discard().

Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220920000100.477320-4-void@manifault.com
2022-09-21 16:25:03 -07:00
arch bpf: Move bpf_dispatcher function out of ftrace locations 2022-09-16 22:23:20 +02:00
block block-6.0-2022-08-26 2022-08-26 11:05:54 -07:00
certs Kbuild updates for v5.20 2022-08-10 10:40:41 -07:00
crypto crypto: blake2b: effectively disable frame size warning 2022-08-10 17:59:11 -07:00
Documentation bpf: Use bpf_capable() instead of CAP_SYS_ADMIN for blinding decision 2022-09-16 22:11:57 +02:00
drivers net: moxa: fix endianness-related issues from 'sparse' 2022-09-06 10:24:42 +02:00
fs Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2022-09-01 12:58:02 -07:00
include bpf: Add bpf_user_ringbuf_drain() helper 2022-09-21 16:24:58 -07:00
init arm64 fixes for -rc3 2022-08-26 11:32:53 -07:00
io_uring lsm/stable-6.0 PR 20220829 2022-08-31 09:23:16 -07:00
ipc Updates to various subsystems which I help look after. lib, ocfs2, 2022-08-07 10:03:24 -07:00
kernel bpf: Add bpf_user_ringbuf_drain() helper 2022-09-21 16:24:58 -07:00
lib This push fixes a boot performance regression due to an unnecessary 2022-08-31 09:47:06 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm slab fixes for 6.0-rc4 2022-09-01 09:14:56 -07:00
net bpf: Move nf_conn extern declarations to filter.h 2022-09-20 14:41:35 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Replace blk_account_io_done() with __blk_account_io_done() 2022-09-20 17:25:59 -07:00
scripts Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2022-09-06 23:21:18 +02:00
security lsm/stable-6.0 PR 20220829 2022-08-31 09:23:16 -07:00
sound ALSA: usb-audio: Add quirk for LH Labs Geek Out HD Audio 1V5 2022-08-28 09:42:14 +02:00
tools bpf: Add libbpf logic for user-space ring buffer 2022-09-21 16:25:03 -07:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: Drop unnecessary initialization of "ops" in kvm_ioctl_create_device() 2022-08-19 04:05:43 -04:00
.clang-format PCI/DOE: Add DOE mailbox support functions 2022-07-19 15:38:04 -07:00
.cocciconfig
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap .mailmap: update Luca Ceresoli's e-mail address 2022-08-28 14:02:46 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS drm for 5.20/6.0 2022-08-03 19:52:08 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS net: pcs: add new PCS driver for altera TSE PCS 2022-09-05 10:16:53 +01:00
Makefile Linux 6.0-rc3 2022-08-28 15:05:29 -07:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.