Andrii Nakryiko says:
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bpf-next 2022-08-17
We've added 45 non-merge commits during the last 14 day(s) which contain
a total of 61 files changed, 986 insertions(+), 372 deletions(-).
The main changes are:
1) New bpf_ktime_get_tai_ns() BPF helper to access CLOCK_TAI, from Kurt
Kanzenbach and Jesper Dangaard Brouer.
2) Few clean ups and improvements for libbpf 1.0, from Andrii Nakryiko.
3) Expose crash_kexec() as kfunc for BPF programs, from Artem Savkov.
4) Add ability to define sleepable-only kfuncs, from Benjamin Tissoires.
5) Teach libbpf's bpf_prog_load() and bpf_map_create() to gracefully handle
unsupported names on old kernels, from Hangbin Liu.
6) Allow opting out from auto-attaching BPF programs by libbpf's BPF skeleton,
from Hao Luo.
7) Relax libbpf's requirement for shared libs to be marked executable, from
Henqgi Chen.
8) Improve bpf_iter internals handling of error returns, from Hao Luo.
9) Few accommodations in libbpf to support GCC-BPF quirks, from James Hilliard.
10) Fix BPF verifier logic around tracking dynptr ref_obj_id, from Joanne Koong.
11) bpftool improvements to handle full BPF program names better, from Manu
Bretelle.
12) bpftool fixes around libcap use, from Quentin Monnet.
13) BPF map internals clean ups and improvements around memory allocations,
from Yafang Shao.
14) Allow to use cgroup_get_from_file() on cgroupv1, allowing BPF cgroup
iterator to work on cgroupv1, from Yosry Ahmed.
15) BPF verifier internal clean ups, from Dave Marchevsky and Joanne Koong.
16) Various fixes and clean ups for selftests/bpf and vmtest.sh, from Daniel
Xu, Artem Savkov, Joanne Koong, Andrii Nakryiko, Shibin Koikkara Reeny.
* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (45 commits)
selftests/bpf: Few fixes for selftests/bpf built in release mode
libbpf: Clean up deprecated and legacy aliases
libbpf: Streamline bpf_attr and perf_event_attr initialization
libbpf: Fix potential NULL dereference when parsing ELF
selftests/bpf: Tests libbpf autoattach APIs
libbpf: Allows disabling auto attach
selftests/bpf: Fix attach point for non-x86 arches in test_progs/lsm
libbpf: Making bpf_prog_load() ignore name if kernel doesn't support
selftests/bpf: Update CI kconfig
selftests/bpf: Add connmark read test
selftests/bpf: Add existing connection bpf_*_ct_lookup() test
bpftool: Clear errno after libcap's checks
bpf: Clear up confusion in bpf_skb_adjust_room()'s documentation
bpftool: Fix a typo in a comment
libbpf: Add names for auxiliary maps
bpf: Use bpf_map_area_alloc consistently on bpf map creation
bpf: Make __GFP_NOWARN consistent in bpf map creation
bpf: Use bpf_map_area_free instread of kvfree
bpf: Remove unneeded memset in queue_stack_map creation
libbpf: preserve errno across pr_warn/pr_info/pr_debug
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220817215656.1180215-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
This patch updates bpf_design_QA.rst to clarify that the ability to
attach a BPF program to an arbitrary function in the kernel does not
make that function become part of the Linux kernel's ABI.
[ paulmck: Apply Daniel Borkmann feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220802173913.4170192-2-paulmck@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
As the usage of kfuncs grows, we are starting to form consensus on the
kinds of attributes and annotations that kfuncs can have. To better help
developers make sense of the various options available at their disposal
to present an unstable API to the BPF users, document the various kfunc
flags and annotations, their expected usage, and explain the process of
defining and registering a kfunc set.
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220721134245.2450-6-memxor@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Add documentation for BPF_MAP_TYPE_HASH including kernel version
introduced, usage and examples. Document BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_HASH,
BPF_MAP_TYPE_LRU_HASH and BPF_MAP_TYPE_LRU_PERCPU_HASH variations.
Note that this file is included in the BPF documentation by the glob in
Documentation/bpf/maps.rst
v3:
Fix typos reported by Stanislav Fomichev and Yonghong Song.
Add note about iteration and deletion as requested by Yonghong Song.
v2:
Describe memory allocation semantics as suggested by Stanislav Fomichev.
Fix u64 typo reported by Stanislav Fomichev.
Cut down usage examples to only show usage in context.
Updated patch description to follow style recommendation, reported by
Bagas Sanjaya.
Signed-off-by: Donald Hunter <donald.hunter@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220718125847.1390-1-donald.hunter@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The documentation for the tip tree is really in quite a similar
spirit to the netdev-FAQ. Move the netdev-FAQ to the process docs
as well.
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
In addition to the normal 64-bit instruction encoding, eBPF also has
a single instruction that uses a second 64-bit bits for a second
immediate value. Instead of only documenting this format deep down
in the document mention it in the instruction encoding section.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220131183638.3934982-5-hch@lst.de
The packet access instructions are a convoluted leftover from classic
BPF. Move them last past the much more important atomic operations,
and improve the rendering of the code example.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211223101906.977624-5-hch@lst.de
Split the introductory that explain eBPF vs classic BPF and how it maps
to hardware from the instruction set specification into a standalone
document. This duplicates a little bit of information but gives us a
useful reference for the eBPF instrution set that is not encumbered by
classic BPF.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211223101906.977624-3-hch@lst.de
filter.rst starts out documenting the classic BPF and then spills into
introducing and documentating eBPF. Move the eBPF documentation into
rwo new files under Documentation/bpf/ for the instruction set and
the verifier and link to the BPF documentation from filter.rst.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211119163215.971383-6-hch@lst.de
This commit fixes the display of the BPF documentation in the sidebar
when rendered as HTML.
Before this patch, the sidebar would render as follows for some
sections:
| BPF Documentation
|- BPF Type Format (BTF)
|- BPF Type Format (BTF)
This was due to creating a heading in index.rst followed by
a sphinx toctree, where the file referenced carries the same
title as the section heading.
To fix this I applied a pattern that has been established in other
subfolders of Documentation:
1. Re-wrote index.rst to have a single toctree
2. Split the sections out in to their own files
Additionally maps.rst and programs.rst make use of a glob pattern to
include map_* or prog_* rst files in their toctree, meaning future map
or program type documentation will be automatically included.
Signed-off-by: Dave Tucker <dave@dtucker.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1a1eed800e7b9dc13b458de113a489641519b0cc.1636749493.git.dave@dtucker.co.uk
Patch set [1] introduced BTF_KIND_TAG to allow tagging
declarations for struct/union, struct/union field, var, func
and func arguments and these tags will be encoded into
dwarf. They are also encoded to btf by llvm for the bpf target.
After BTF_KIND_TAG is introduced, we intended to use it
for kernel __user attributes. But kernel __user is actually
a type attribute. Upstream and internal discussion showed
it is not a good idea to mix declaration attribute and
type attribute. So we proposed to introduce btf_type_tag
as a type attribute and existing btf_tag renamed to
btf_decl_tag ([2]).
This patch renamed BTF_KIND_TAG to BTF_KIND_DECL_TAG and some
other declarations with *_tag to *_decl_tag to make it clear
the tag is for declaration. In the future, BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG
might be introduced per [3].
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210914223004.244411-1-yhs@fb.com/
[2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111588
[3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111199
Fixes: b5ea834dde ("bpf: Support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5b84bd1036 ("libbpf: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Fixes: 5c07f2fec0 ("bpftool: Add support for BTF_KIND_TAG")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211012164838.3345699-1-yhs@fb.com
This patch renames a documentation libbpf.rst to index.rst. In order
for readthedocs.org to pick this file up and properly build the
documentation site.
It also changes the title type of the ABI subsection in the
naming convention doc. This is so that readthedocs.org doesn't treat this
section as a separate document.
Signed-off-by: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210818151313.49992-1-grantseltzer@gmail.com
This removes the libbpf_api.rst file from the kernel documentation.
The intention for this file was to pull documentation from comments
above API functions in libbpf. However, due to limitations of the
kernel documentation system, this API documentation could not be
versioned, which is counterintuative to how users expect to use it.
There is also currently no doc comments, making this a blank page.
Once the kernel comment documentation is actually contributed, it
will still exist in the kernel repository, just in the code itself.
A seperate site is being spun up to generate documentaiton from those
comments in a way in which it can be versioned properly.
This also reconfigures the bpf documentation index page to make it
easier to sync to the previously mentioned documentaiton site.
Signed-off-by: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210810020508.280639-1-grantseltzer@gmail.com
