Go to file
Alexei Starovoitov ffa915f461 Merge branch 'bpf_metadata'
Stanislav Fomichev says:

====================
Currently, if a user wants to store arbitrary metadata for an eBPF
program, for example, the program build commit hash or version, they
could store it in a map, and conveniently libbpf uses .data section to
populate an internal map. However, if the program does not actually
reference the map, then the map would be de-refcounted and freed.

This patch set introduces a new syscall BPF_PROG_BIND_MAP to add a map
to a program's used_maps, even if the program instructions does not
reference the map.

libbpf is extended to always BPF_PROG_BIND_MAP .rodata section so the
metadata is kept in place.
bpftool is also extended to print metadata in the 'bpftool prog' list.

The variable is considered metadata if it starts with the
magic 'bpf_metadata_' prefix; everything after the prefix is the
metadata name.

An example use of this would be BPF C file declaring:

  volatile const char bpf_metadata_commit_hash[] SEC(".rodata") = "abcdef123456";

and bpftool would emit:

  $ bpftool prog
  [...]
        metadata:
                commit_hash = "abcdef123456"

v6 changes:
* libbpf: drop FEAT_GLOBAL_DATA from probe_prog_bind_map (Andrii Nakryiko)
* bpftool: combine find_metadata_map_id & find_metadata;
  drops extra bpf_map_get_fd_by_id and bpf_map_get_fd_by_id (Andrii Nakryiko)
* bpftool: use strncmp instead of strstr (Andrii Nakryiko)
* bpftool: memset(map_info) and extra empty line (Andrii Nakryiko)

v5 changes:
* selftest: verify that prog holds rodata (Andrii Nakryiko)
* selftest: use volatile for metadata (Andrii Nakryiko)
* bpftool: use sizeof in BPF_METADATA_PREFIX_LEN (Andrii Nakryiko)
* bpftool: new find_metadata that does map lookup (Andrii Nakryiko)
* libbpf: don't generalize probe_create_global_data (Andrii Nakryiko)
* libbpf: use OPTS_VALID in bpf_prog_bind_map (Andrii Nakryiko)
* libbpf: keep LIBBPF_0.2.0 sorted (Andrii Nakryiko)

v4 changes:
* Don't return EEXIST from syscall if already bound (Andrii Nakryiko)
* Removed --metadata argument (Andrii Nakryiko)
* Removed custom .metadata section (Alexei Starovoitov)
* Addressed Andrii's suggestions about btf helpers and vsi (Andrii Nakryiko)
* Moved bpf_prog_find_metadata into bpftool (Alexei Starovoitov)

v3 changes:
* API changes for bpf_prog_find_metadata (Toke Høiland-Jørgensen)

v2 changes:
* Made struct bpf_prog_bind_opts in libbpf so flags is optional.
* Deduped probe_kern_global_data and probe_prog_bind_map into a common
  helper.
* Added comment regarding why EEXIST is ignored in libbpf bind map.
* Froze all LIBBPF_MAP_METADATA internal maps.
* Moved bpf_prog_bind_map into new LIBBPF_0.1.1 in libbpf.map.
* Added p_err() calls on error cases in bpftool show_prog_metadata.
* Reverse christmas tree coding style in bpftool show_prog_metadata.
* Made bpftool gen skeleton recognize .metadata as an internal map and
  generate datasec definition in skeleton.
* Added C test using skeleton to see asset that the metadata is what we
  expect and rebinding causes EEXIST.

v1 changes:
* Fixed a few missing unlocks, and missing close while iterating map fds.
* Move mutex initialization to right after prog aux allocation, and mutex
  destroy to right after prog aux free.
* s/ADD_MAP/BIND_MAP/
* Use mutex only instead of RCU to protect the used_map array & count.

Cc: YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei1999@gmail.com>
====================

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2020-09-15 18:28:41 -07:00
arch s390/bpf: Fix multiple tail calls 2020-09-14 18:21:31 -07:00
block block-5.9-2020-08-14 2020-08-15 20:36:42 -07:00
certs .gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier 2020-03-25 11:50:48 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2020-08-14 13:09:15 -07:00
Documentation Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-09-01 13:22:59 -07:00
drivers bpf: Mutex protect used_maps array and count 2020-09-15 18:28:27 -07:00
fs io_uring: ignore POLLIN for recvmsg on MSG_ERRQUEUE 2020-08-24 16:16:06 -07:00
include bpf: Add BPF_PROG_BIND_MAP syscall 2020-09-15 18:28:27 -07:00
init bpf: Introduce sleepable BPF programs 2020-08-28 21:20:33 +02:00
ipc ipc/shm.c: remove the superfluous break 2020-08-12 10:58:02 -07:00
kernel bpf: Add BPF_PROG_BIND_MAP syscall 2020-09-15 18:28:27 -07:00
lib netlink: remove duplicated nla_need_padding_for_64bit() check 2020-08-25 06:06:19 -07:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Rename other to deprecated 2019-05-03 06:34:32 -06:00
mm Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-09-01 13:22:59 -07:00
net bpf: Mutex protect used_maps array and count 2020-09-15 18:28:27 -07:00
samples samples/bpf: Add quiet option to xdpsock 2020-09-14 18:38:11 -07:00
scripts Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2020-09-01 13:22:59 -07:00
security bpf: Implement bpf_local_storage for inodes 2020-08-25 15:00:04 -07:00
sound sound fixes for 5.9-rc2 2020-08-21 10:07:54 -07:00
tools selftests/bpf: Test load and dump metadata with btftool and skel 2020-09-15 18:28:27 -07:00
usr Merge branch 'work.fdpic' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2020-08-07 13:29:39 -07:00
virt * PAE and PKU bugfixes for x86 2020-08-22 10:03:05 -07:00
.clang-format block: add bio_for_each_bvec_all() 2020-05-25 11:25:24 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Opt out of scripts/get_maintainer.pl 2019-05-16 10:53:40 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: Add ZSTD-compressed files 2020-07-31 11:50:49 +02:00
.mailmap Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2020-08-21 14:44:48 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-07-23 14:53:58 -06:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS net: phy: add Lynx PCS module 2020-08-31 12:52:33 -07:00
Makefile kbuild: remove redundant patterns in filter/filter-out 2020-08-18 20:16:46 +09:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.