According to include/uapi/linux/bpf.h:
#define BPF_FROM_LE BPF_TO_LE
#define BPF_FROM_BE BPF_TO_BE
BPF_FROM_BE exists as alias for BPF_TO_BE instead of BPF_TO_LE.
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1651139754-4838-3-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
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>
This adds documentation for the BPF_PROG_RUN command; a short overview of
the command itself, and a more verbose description of the "live packet"
mode for XDP introduced in the previous commit.
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220309105346.100053-3-toke@redhat.com
Use proper tables and RST markup to document the atomic instructions
in a structured way.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220131183638.3934982-6-hch@lst.de
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
Use consistent terminology and structured RST elements to better document
these two oddball instructions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220131183638.3934982-4-hch@lst.de
Add a separate section and a little intro blurb for the regular load and
store instructions.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220131183638.3934982-3-hch@lst.de
Clarify where the BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG gets encoded in the type chain,
so applications and kernel can properly parse them.
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220127154627.665163-1-yhs@fb.com
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Add a little more stucture to the ALU/JMP documentation with sections and
improve the example text.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220103183556.41040-3-hch@lst.de
The eBPF instruction set document does not currently document the basic
instruction encoding. Add a section to do that.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220103183556.41040-2-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
Use RST tables that are nicely readable both in plain ascii as well as
in html to render the instruction encodings, and add a few subheadings
to better structure the text.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211223101906.977624-4-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
Use normal RST file reference instead of linkage copied from the old filter.rst
document that does not actually work when using HTML output.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211223101906.977624-2-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
Move the general maps documentation into the maps.rst file from the
overall networking filter documentation and add a link instead.
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/20211119163215.971383-5-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 adds a section to the documentation for libbpf
naming convention which describes how to document
API features in libbpf, specifically the format of
which API doc comments need to conform to.
Signed-off-by: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211004215644.497327-1-grantseltzer@gmail.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
Use "code-block: none" instead of "c" for non-C-language code blocks.
Removes these warnings:
lnx-514-rc4/Documentation/bpf/libbpf/libbpf_naming_convention.rst:111: WARNING: Could not lex literal_block as "c". Highlighting skipped.
lnx-514-rc4/Documentation/bpf/libbpf/libbpf_naming_convention.rst:124: WARNING: Could not lex literal_block as "c". Highlighting skipped.
Fixes: f42cfb469f ("bpf: Add documentation for libbpf including API autogen")
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210802015037.787-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Core:
- BPF:
- add syscall program type and libbpf support for generating
instructions and bindings for in-kernel BPF loaders (BPF loaders
for BPF), this is a stepping stone for signed BPF programs
- infrastructure to migrate TCP child sockets from one listener
to another in the same reuseport group/map to improve flexibility
of service hand-off/restart
- add broadcast support to XDP redirect
- allow bypass of the lockless qdisc to improving performance
(for pktgen: +23% with one thread, +44% with 2 threads)
- add a simpler version of "DO_ONCE()" which does not require
jump labels, intended for slow-path usage
- virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support
- add getsocketopt to retrieve netns cookie
- ip: treat lowest address of a IPv4 subnet as ordinary unicast address
allowing reclaiming of precious IPv4 addresses
- ipv6: use prandom_u32() for ID generation
- ip: add support for more flexible field selection for hashing
across multi-path routes (w/ offload to mlxsw)
- icmp: add support for extended RFC 8335 PROBE (ping)
- seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT46 behavior
- mptcp:
- DSS checksum support (RFC 8684) to detect middlebox meddling
- support Connection-time 'C' flag
- time stamping support
- sctp: packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (RFC 8899)
- xfrm: speed up state addition with seq set
- WiFi:
- hidden AP discovery on 6 GHz and other HE 6 GHz improvements
- aggregation handling improvements for some drivers
- minstrel improvements for no-ack frames
- deferred rate control for TXQs to improve reaction times
- switch from round robin to virtual time-based airtime scheduler
- add trace points:
- tcp checksum errors
- openvswitch - action execution, upcalls
- socket errors via sk_error_report
Device APIs:
- devlink: add rate API for hierarchical control of max egress rate
of virtual devices (VFs, SFs etc.)
- don't require RCU read lock to be held around BPF hooks
in NAPI context
- page_pool: generic buffer recycling
New hardware/drivers:
- mobile:
- iosm: PCIe Driver for Intel M.2 Modem
- support for Qualcomm MSM8998 (ipa)
- WiFi: Qualcomm QCN9074 and WCN6855 PCI devices
- sparx5: Microchip SparX-5 family of Enterprise Ethernet switches
- Mellanox BlueField Gigabit Ethernet (control NIC of the DPU)
- NXP SJA1110 Automotive Ethernet 10-port switch
- Qualcomm QCA8327 switch support (qca8k)
- Mikrotik 10/25G NIC (atl1c)
Driver changes:
- ACPI support for some MDIO, MAC and PHY devices from Marvell and NXP
(our first foray into MAC/PHY description via ACPI)
- HW timestamping (PTP) support: bnxt_en, ice, sja1105, hns3, tja11xx
- Mellanox/Nvidia NIC (mlx5)
- NIC VF offload of L2 bridging
- support IRQ distribution to Sub-functions
- Marvell (prestera):
- add flower and match all
- devlink trap
- link aggregation
- Netronome (nfp): connection tracking offload
- Intel 1GE (igc): add AF_XDP support
- Marvell DPU (octeontx2): ingress ratelimit offload
- Google vNIC (gve): new ring/descriptor format support
- Qualcomm mobile (rmnet & ipa): inline checksum offload support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76)
- mt7915 MSI support
- mt7915 Tx status reporting
- mt7915 thermal sensors support
- mt7921 decapsulation offload
- mt7921 enable runtime pm and deep sleep
- Realtek WiFi (rtw88)
- beacon filter support
- Tx antenna path diversity support
- firmware crash information via devcoredump
- Qualcomm 60GHz WiFi (wcn36xx)
- Wake-on-WLAN support with magic packets and GTK rekeying
- Micrel PHY (ksz886x/ksz8081): add cable test support
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'net-next-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from Jakub Kicinski:
"Core:
- BPF:
- add syscall program type and libbpf support for generating
instructions and bindings for in-kernel BPF loaders (BPF loaders
for BPF), this is a stepping stone for signed BPF programs
- infrastructure to migrate TCP child sockets from one listener to
another in the same reuseport group/map to improve flexibility
of service hand-off/restart
- add broadcast support to XDP redirect
- allow bypass of the lockless qdisc to improving performance (for
pktgen: +23% with one thread, +44% with 2 threads)
- add a simpler version of "DO_ONCE()" which does not require jump
labels, intended for slow-path usage
- virtio/vsock: introduce SOCK_SEQPACKET support
- add getsocketopt to retrieve netns cookie
- ip: treat lowest address of a IPv4 subnet as ordinary unicast
address allowing reclaiming of precious IPv4 addresses
- ipv6: use prandom_u32() for ID generation
- ip: add support for more flexible field selection for hashing
across multi-path routes (w/ offload to mlxsw)
- icmp: add support for extended RFC 8335 PROBE (ping)
- seg6: add support for SRv6 End.DT46 behavior
- mptcp:
- DSS checksum support (RFC 8684) to detect middlebox meddling
- support Connection-time 'C' flag
- time stamping support
- sctp: packetization Layer Path MTU Discovery (RFC 8899)
- xfrm: speed up state addition with seq set
- WiFi:
- hidden AP discovery on 6 GHz and other HE 6 GHz improvements
- aggregation handling improvements for some drivers
- minstrel improvements for no-ack frames
- deferred rate control for TXQs to improve reaction times
- switch from round robin to virtual time-based airtime scheduler
- add trace points:
- tcp checksum errors
- openvswitch - action execution, upcalls
- socket errors via sk_error_report
Device APIs:
- devlink: add rate API for hierarchical control of max egress rate
of virtual devices (VFs, SFs etc.)
- don't require RCU read lock to be held around BPF hooks in NAPI
context
- page_pool: generic buffer recycling
New hardware/drivers:
- mobile:
- iosm: PCIe Driver for Intel M.2 Modem
- support for Qualcomm MSM8998 (ipa)
- WiFi: Qualcomm QCN9074 and WCN6855 PCI devices
- sparx5: Microchip SparX-5 family of Enterprise Ethernet switches
- Mellanox BlueField Gigabit Ethernet (control NIC of the DPU)
- NXP SJA1110 Automotive Ethernet 10-port switch
- Qualcomm QCA8327 switch support (qca8k)
- Mikrotik 10/25G NIC (atl1c)
Driver changes:
- ACPI support for some MDIO, MAC and PHY devices from Marvell and
NXP (our first foray into MAC/PHY description via ACPI)
- HW timestamping (PTP) support: bnxt_en, ice, sja1105, hns3, tja11xx
- Mellanox/Nvidia NIC (mlx5)
- NIC VF offload of L2 bridging
- support IRQ distribution to Sub-functions
- Marvell (prestera):
- add flower and match all
- devlink trap
- link aggregation
- Netronome (nfp): connection tracking offload
- Intel 1GE (igc): add AF_XDP support
- Marvell DPU (octeontx2): ingress ratelimit offload
- Google vNIC (gve): new ring/descriptor format support
- Qualcomm mobile (rmnet & ipa): inline checksum offload support
- MediaTek WiFi (mt76)
- mt7915 MSI support
- mt7915 Tx status reporting
- mt7915 thermal sensors support
- mt7921 decapsulation offload
- mt7921 enable runtime pm and deep sleep
- Realtek WiFi (rtw88)
- beacon filter support
- Tx antenna path diversity support
- firmware crash information via devcoredump
- Qualcomm WiFi (wcn36xx)
- Wake-on-WLAN support with magic packets and GTK rekeying
- Micrel PHY (ksz886x/ksz8081): add cable test support"
* tag 'net-next-5.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2168 commits)
tcp: change ICSK_CA_PRIV_SIZE definition
tcp_yeah: check struct yeah size at compile time
gve: DQO: Fix off by one in gve_rx_dqo()
stmmac: intel: set PCI_D3hot in suspend
stmmac: intel: Enable PHY WOL option in EHL
net: stmmac: option to enable PHY WOL with PMT enabled
net: say "local" instead of "static" addresses in ndo_dflt_fdb_{add,del}
net: use netdev_info in ndo_dflt_fdb_{add,del}
ptp: Set lookup cookie when creating a PTP PPS source.
net: sock: add trace for socket errors
net: sock: introduce sk_error_report
net: dsa: replay the local bridge FDB entries pointing to the bridge dev too
net: dsa: ensure during dsa_fdb_offload_notify that dev_hold and dev_put are on the same dev
net: dsa: include fdb entries pointing to bridge in the host fdb list
net: dsa: include bridge addresses which are local in the host fdb list
net: dsa: sync static FDB entries on foreign interfaces to hardware
net: dsa: install the host MDB and FDB entries in the master's RX filter
net: dsa: reference count the FDB addresses at the cross-chip notifier level
net: dsa: introduce a separate cross-chip notifier type for host FDBs
net: dsa: reference count the MDB entries at the cross-chip notifier level
...
This patch is meant to start the initiative to document libbpf.
It includes .rst files which are text documentation describing building,
API naming convention, as well as an index to generated API documentation.
In this approach the generated API documentation is enabled by the kernels
existing kernel documentation system which uses sphinx. The resulting docs
would then be synced to kernel.org/doc
You can test this by running `make htmldocs` and serving the html in
Documentation/output. Since libbpf does not yet have comments in kernel
doc format, see kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/kernel-doc.html for
an example so you can test this.
The advantage of this approach is to use the existing sphinx
infrastructure that the kernel has, and have libbpf docs in
the same place as everything else.
The current plan is to have the libbpf mirror sync the generated docs
and version them based on the libbpf releases which are cut on github.
This patch includes the addition of libbpf_api.rst which pulls comment
documentation from header files in libbpf under tools/lib/bpf/. The comment
docs would be of the standard kernel doc format.
Signed-off-by: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210618140459.9887-2-grantseltzer@gmail.com
LLVM upstream commit https://reviews.llvm.org/D102712 made some changes
to bpf relocations to make them llvm linker lld friendly. The scope of
existing relocations R_BPF_64_{64,32} is narrowed and new relocations
R_BPF_64_{ABS32,ABS64,NODYLD32} are introduced.
Let us add some documentation about llvm bpf relocations so people can
understand how to resolve them properly in their respective tools.
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210526152457.335210-1-yhs@fb.com
pahole starts to use libbpf definitions and APIs since v1.13 after the
commit 21507cd3e97b ("pahole: add libbpf as submodule under lib/bpf").
It works well with the git repository because the libbpf submodule will
use "git submodule update --init --recursive" to update.
Unfortunately, the default github release source code does not contain
libbpf submodule source code and this will cause build issues, the tarball
from https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git/ is same with
github, you can get the source tarball with corresponding libbpf submodule
codes from
https://fedorapeople.org/~acme/dwarves
This change documents the above issues to give more information so that
we can get the tarball from the right place, early discussion is here:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/2de4aad5-fa9e-1c39-3c92-9bb9229d0966@loongson.cn/
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1619141010-12521-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
This patch updates bpf_design_QA.rst to clarify that the kernel
function callable by bpf program is not an ABI.
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210330054150.2933542-1-kafai@fb.com
Generate the syscall command reference from the UAPI header file and
include it in the main bpf docs page.
Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@cilium.io>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210302171947.2268128-15-joe@cilium.io
The current LLVM and Clang build procedure in samples/bpf/README.rst is
out of date. See below that the links are not accessible any more.
$ git clone http://llvm.org/git/llvm.git
Cloning into 'llvm'...
fatal: unable to access 'http://llvm.org/git/llvm.git/': Maximum (20) redirects followed
$ git clone --depth 1 http://llvm.org/git/clang.git
Cloning into 'clang'...
fatal: unable to access 'http://llvm.org/git/clang.git/': Maximum (20) redirects followed
The LLVM community has adopted new ways to build the compiler. There are
different ways to build LLVM and Clang, the Clang Getting Started page [1]
has one way. As Yonghong said, it is better to copy the build procedure
in Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst to keep consistent.
I verified the procedure and it is proved to be feasible, so we should
update README.rst to reflect the reality. At the same time, update the
related comment in Makefile.
Additionally, as Fangrui said, the dir llvm-project/llvm/build/install is
not used, BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF is the default option [2], so also change
Documentation/bpf/bpf_devel_QA.rst together.
At last, we recommend that developers who want the fastest incremental
builds use the Ninja build system [1], you can find it in your system's
package manager, usually the package is ninja or ninja-build [3], so add
ninja to build dependencies suggested by Nathan.
[1] https://clang.llvm.org/get_started.html
[2] https://www.llvm.org/docs/CMake.html
[3] https://github.com/ninja-build/ninja/wiki/Pre-built-Ninja-packages
Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1611279584-26047-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
Some subsystems only have bare tracepoints (a tracepoint with no
associated trace event) to avoid the problem of trace events being an
ABI that can't be changed.
>From bpf presepective, bare tracepoints are what it calls
RAW_TRACEPOINT().
Since bpf assumed there's 1:1 mapping, it relied on hooking to
DEFINE_EVENT() macro to create bpf mapping of the tracepoints. Since
bare tracepoints use DECLARE_TRACE() to create the tracepoint, bpf had
no knowledge about their existence.
By teaching bpf_probe.h to parse DECLARE_TRACE() in a similar fashion to
DEFINE_EVENT(), bpf can find and attach to the new raw tracepoints.
Enabling that comes with the contract that changes to raw tracepoints
don't constitute a regression if they break existing bpf programs.
We need the ability to continue to morph and modify these raw
tracepoints without worrying about any ABI.
Update Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst to document this contract.
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210119122237.2426878-2-qais.yousef@arm.com
Tiezhu Yang