linux/tools/include
Andrii Nakryiko 8a76145a2e bpf: explicitly define BPF_FUNC_xxx integer values
Historically enum bpf_func_id's BPF_FUNC_xxx enumerators relied on
implicit sequential values being assigned by compiler. This is
convenient, as new BPF helpers are always added at the very end, but it
also has its downsides, some of them being:

  - with over 200 helpers now it's very hard to know what's each helper's ID,
    which is often important to know when working with BPF assembly (e.g.,
    by dumping raw bpf assembly instructions with llvm-objdump -d
    command). it's possible to work around this by looking into vmlinux.h,
    dumping /sys/btf/kernel/vmlinux, looking at libbpf-provided
    bpf_helper_defs.h, etc. But it always feels like an unnecessary step
    and one should be able to quickly figure this out from UAPI header.

  - when backporting and cherry-picking only some BPF helpers onto older
    kernels it's important to be able to skip some enum values for helpers
    that weren't backported, but preserve absolute integer IDs to keep BPF
    helper IDs stable so that BPF programs stay portable across upstream
    and backported kernels.

While neither problem is insurmountable, they come up frequently enough
and are annoying enough to warrant improving the situation. And for the
backporting the problem can easily go unnoticed for a while, especially
if backport is done with people not very familiar with BPF subsystem overall.

Anyways, it's easy to fix this by making sure that __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER
macro provides explicit helper IDs. Unfortunately that would potentially
break existing users that use UAPI-exposed __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER and are
expected to pass macro that accepts only symbolic helper identifier
(e.g., map_lookup_elem for bpf_map_lookup_elem() helper).

As such, we need to introduce a new macro (___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER) which
would specify both identifier and integer ID, but in such a way as to
allow existing __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER be expressed in terms of new
___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER macro. And that's what this patch is doing. To avoid
duplication and allow __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER stay *exactly* the same,
___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER accepts arbitrary "context" arguments, which can be
used to pass any extra macros, arguments, and whatnot. In our case we
use this to pass original user-provided macro that expects single
argument and __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER is using it's own three-argument
__BPF_FUNC_MAPPER_APPLY intermediate macro to impedance-match new and
old "callback" macros.

Once we resolve this, we use new ___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER to define enum
bpf_func_id with explicit values. The other users of __BPF_FUNC_MAPPER
in kernel (namely in kernel/bpf/disasm.c) are kept exactly the same both
as demonstration that backwards compat works, but also to avoid
unnecessary code churn.

Note that new ___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER() doesn't forcefully insert comma
between values, as that might not be appropriate in all possible cases
where ___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER might be used by users. This doesn't reduce
usability, as it's trivial to insert that comma inside "callback" macro.

To validate all the manually specified IDs are exactly right, we used
BTF to compare before and after values:

  $ bpftool btf dump file ~/linux-build/default/vmlinux | rg bpf_func_id -A 211 > after.txt
  $ git stash # stach UAPI changes
  $ make -j90
  ... re-building kernel without UAPI changes ...
  $ bpftool btf dump file ~/linux-build/default/vmlinux | rg bpf_func_id -A 211 > before.txt
  $ diff -u before.txt after.txt
  --- before.txt  2022-10-05 10:48:18.119195916 -0700
  +++ after.txt   2022-10-05 10:46:49.446615025 -0700
  @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
  -[14576] ENUM 'bpf_func_id' encoding=UNSIGNED size=4 vlen=211
  +[9560] ENUM 'bpf_func_id' encoding=UNSIGNED size=4 vlen=211
          'BPF_FUNC_unspec' val=0
          'BPF_FUNC_map_lookup_elem' val=1
          'BPF_FUNC_map_update_elem' val=2

As can be seen from diff above, the only thing that changed was resulting BTF
type ID of ENUM bpf_func_id, not any of the enumerators, their names or integer
values.

The only other place that needed fixing was scripts/bpf_doc.py used to generate
man pages and bpf_helper_defs.h header for libbpf and selftests. That script is
tightly-coupled to exact shape of ___BPF_FUNC_MAPPER macro definition, so had
to be trivially adapted.

Cc: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Reported-by: Andrea Terzolo <andrea.terzolo@polito.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com>
Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221006042452.2089843-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2022-10-06 08:19:30 -07:00
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asm nds32: Remove the architecture 2022-03-07 13:54:59 +01:00
asm-generic bitops: wrap non-atomic bitops with a transparent macro 2022-06-30 19:52:41 -07:00
linux Rust introduction for v6.1-rc1 2022-10-03 16:39:37 -07:00
nolibc tools/nolibc: make sys_mmap() automatically use the right __NR_mmap definition 2022-08-31 05:17:43 -07:00
tools tools include: add dis-asm-compat.h to handle version differences 2022-08-01 15:29:49 -03:00
trace/events
uapi bpf: explicitly define BPF_FUNC_xxx integer values 2022-10-06 08:19:30 -07:00
vdso tools headers: Synchronize linux/bits.h with the kernel sources 2020-04-14 11:40:05 -03:00