linux/tools/lib
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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api libperf: Avoid counting of nonfilterable fdarray fds 2020-07-21 09:53:22 -03:00
bpf bpf, libbpf: Add bpf_tail_call_static helper for bpf programs 2020-09-30 11:50:35 -07:00
lockdep .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
perf libperf: Fix man page typos 2020-08-13 09:34:26 -03:00
subcmd libsubcmd: Fix OPT_CALLBACK_SET() 2020-07-17 09:33:06 -03:00
symbol libsymbols kallsyms: Move hex2u64 out of header 2020-05-05 16:35:32 -03:00
traceevent libtraceevent: Fix build warning on 32-bit arches 2020-09-03 15:45:15 -03:00
argv_split.c tools lib: Move argv_{split,free} from tools/perf/util/ 2019-07-01 22:50:40 -03:00
bitmap.c tools bitmap: Implement bitmap_equal() operation at bitmap API 2020-01-06 11:46:04 -03:00
ctype.c tools perf: Move from sane_ctype.h obtained from git to the Linux's original 2019-06-25 21:02:47 -03:00
find_bit.c treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 152 2019-05-30 11:26:32 -07:00
hweight.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
rbtree.c tools/: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-08-07 11:33:21 -07:00
str_error_r.c objtool, perf: Fix GCC 8 -Wrestrict error 2018-03-19 13:51:54 -03:00
string.c tools lib: Fix builds when glibc contains strlcpy() 2020-01-06 11:46:10 -03:00
vsprintf.c perf script: Pad DSO name for --call-trace 2019-05-28 18:37:44 -03:00
zalloc.c tools lib: Adopt zalloc()/zfree() from tools/perf 2019-07-09 10:13:26 -03:00