linux/tools
Daniel Borkmann 0e9f6841f6 bpf, libbpf: Add bpf_tail_call_static helper for bpf programs
Port of tail_call_static() helper function from Cilium's BPF code base [0]
to libbpf, so others can easily consume it as well. We've been using this
in production code for some time now. The main idea is that we guarantee
that the kernel's BPF infrastructure and JIT (here: x86_64) can patch the
JITed BPF insns with direct jumps instead of having to fall back to using
expensive retpolines. By using inline asm, we guarantee that the compiler
won't merge the call from different paths with potentially different
content of r2/r3.

We're also using Cilium's __throw_build_bug() macro (here as: __bpf_unreachable())
in different places as a neat trick to trigger compilation errors when
compiler does not remove code at compilation time. This works for the BPF
back end as it does not implement the __builtin_trap().

  [0] f5537c2602

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1656a082e077552eb46642d513b4a6bde9a7dd01.1601477936.git.daniel@iogearbox.net
2020-09-30 11:50:35 -07:00
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accounting
arch tools headers kvm s390: Sync headers with the kernel sources 2020-08-12 08:52:32 -03:00
bootconfig tools/bootconfig: Add testcases for value override operator 2020-08-03 16:22:29 -04:00
bpf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-09-23 13:11:11 -07:00
build tools, bpf/build: Cleanup feature files on make clean 2020-08-28 14:04:27 +02:00
cgroup tools/cgroup: add memcg_slabinfo.py tool 2020-08-07 11:33:25 -07:00
debugging
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio tools: gpio: fix spurious close warning in gpio-event-mon 2020-07-12 10:22:01 +02:00
hv tools: hv: change http to https in hv_kvp_daemon.c 2020-07-06 10:46:23 +00:00
iio
include bpf: Add redirect_neigh helper as redirect drop-in 2020-09-30 11:50:35 -07:00
io_uring tools/io_uring: fix compile breakage 2020-09-21 07:50:58 -06:00
kvm/kvm_stat
laptop
leds
lib bpf, libbpf: Add bpf_tail_call_static helper for bpf programs 2020-09-30 11:50:35 -07:00
memory-model These were the main changes in this cycle: 2020-08-03 14:39:35 -07:00
nfsd
objtool objtool: Fix noreturn detection for ignored functions 2020-09-18 19:37:51 +02:00
pci
pcmcia
perf Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-09-23 13:11:11 -07:00
power ACPI updates for 5.9-rc1 2020-08-03 20:37:22 -07:00
scripts
spi spi: tools: Make default_tx/rx and input_tx static 2020-06-11 16:27:24 +01:00
testing selftests/bpf: Fix endianness issues in sk_lookup/ctx_narrow_access 2020-09-29 16:28:34 -07:00
thermal/tmon
time
usb tools: usb: move to tools buildsystem 2020-08-19 14:11:44 +02:00
virtio virtio: fixes, features 2020-08-11 14:34:17 -07:00
vm tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c: filter out unneeded line 2020-06-03 20:09:49 -07:00
wmi
Makefile bpf: Compile resolve_btfids tool at kernel compilation start 2020-07-13 10:42:02 -07:00