- 19 Dec, 2019 9 commits
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Björn Töpel authored
The BPF JIT incorrectly clobbered the a0 register, and did not flag usage of s5 register when BPF stack was being used. Fixes: 2353ecc6 ("bpf, riscv: add BPF JIT for RV64G") Signed-off-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216091343.23260-2-bjorn.topel@gmail.com
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Alexei Starovoitov authored
Andrii Nakryiko says: ==================== Based on latest feedback and discussions, this patch set implements the following changes: - Kconfig-provided externs have to be in .kconfig section, for which bpf_helpers.h provides convenient __kconfig macro (Daniel); - instead of allowing to override Kconfig file path, switch this to ability to extend and override system Kconfig with user-provided custom values (Alexei); - BTF is required when externs are used. ==================== Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
BTF is required to get type information about extern variables. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191219002837.3074619-4-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Instead of all or nothing approach of overriding Kconfig file location, allow to extend it with extra values and override chosen subset of values though optional user-provided extra config, passed as a string through open options' .kconfig option. If same config key is present in both user-supplied config and Kconfig, user-supplied one wins. This allows applications to more easily test various conditions despite host kernel's real configuration. If all of BPF object's __kconfig externs are satisfied from user-supplied config, system Kconfig won't be read at all. Simplify selftests by not needing to create temporary Kconfig files. Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191219002837.3074619-3-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Move Kconfig-provided externs into custom .kconfig section. Add __kconfig into bpf_helpers.h for user convenience. Update selftests accordingly. Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191219002837.3074619-2-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
There are cases in which BPF resource (program, map, etc) has to outlive userspace program that "installed" it in the system in the first place. When BPF program is attached, libbpf returns bpf_link object, which is supposed to be destroyed after no longer necessary through bpf_link__destroy() API. Currently, bpf_link destruction causes both automatic detachment and frees up any resources allocated to for bpf_link in-memory representation. This is inconvenient for the case described above because of coupling of detachment and resource freeing. This patch introduces bpf_link__disconnect() API call, which marks bpf_link as disconnected from its underlying BPF resouces. This means that when bpf_link is destroyed later, all its memory resources will be freed, but BPF resource itself won't be detached. This design allows to follow strict and resource-leak-free design by default, while giving easy and straightforward way for user code to opt for keeping BPF resource attached beyond lifetime of a bpf_link. For some BPF programs (i.e., FS-based tracepoints, kprobes, raw tracepoint, etc), user has to make sure to pin BPF program to prevent kernel to automatically detach it on process exit. This should typically be achived by pinning BPF program (or map in some cases) in BPF FS. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218225039.2668205-1-andriin@fb.com
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Nikita V. Shirokov authored
allow to pass skb's mark field into bpf_prog_test_run ctx for BPF_PROG_TYPE_SCHED_CLS prog type. that would allow to test bpf programs which are doing decision based on this field Signed-off-by: Nikita V. Shirokov <tehnerd@tehnerd.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Work-around what appears to be a bug in rst2man convertion tool, used to create man pages out of reStructureText-formatted documents. If text line starts with dot, rst2man will put it in resulting man file verbatim. This seems to cause man tool to interpret it as a directive/command (e.g., `.bs`), and subsequently not render entire line because it's unrecognized one. Enclose '.xxx' words in extra formatting to work around. Fixes: cb21ac58 ("bpftool: Add gen subcommand manpage") Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218221707.2552199-1-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Change format string referring to just single argument out of two available. Some versions of libc can reject such format string. Reported-by: Nikita Shirokov <tehnerd@tehnerd.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218214314.2403729-1-andriin@fb.com
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- 18 Dec, 2019 5 commits
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Alexei Starovoitov authored
Andrii Nakryiko says: ==================== Simplify skeleton usage by embedding source BPF object file inside skeleton itself. This allows to keep skeleton and object file in sync at all times with no chance of confusion. Also, add bpftool-gen.rst manpage, explaining concepts and ideas behind skeleton. In examples section it also includes a complete small BPF application utilizing skeleton, as a demonstration of API. Patch #2 also removes BPF_EMBED_OBJ, as there is currently no use of it. v2->v3: - (void) in no-args function (Alexei); - bpftool-gen.rst code block formatting fix (Alexei); - simplified xxx__create_skeleton to fill in obj and return error code; v1->v2: - remove whitespace from empty lines in code blocks (Yonghong). ==================== Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Add bpftool-gen.rst describing skeleton on the high level. Also include a small, but complete, example BPF app (BPF side, userspace side, generated skeleton) in example section to demonstrate skeleton API and its usage. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218052552.2915188-4-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Drop BPF_EMBED_OBJ and struct bpf_embed_data now that skeleton automatically embeds contents of its source object file. While BPF_EMBED_OBJ is useful independently of skeleton, we are currently don't have any use cases utilizing it, so let's remove them until/if we need it. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218052552.2915188-3-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Embed contents of BPF object file used for BPF skeleton generation inside skeleton itself. This allows to keep BPF object file and its skeleton in sync at all times, and simpifies skeleton instantiation. Also switch existing selftests to not require BPF_EMBED_OBJ anymore. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191218052552.2915188-2-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Libbpf is trying to recognize BPF program type based on its section name during bpf_object__open() phase. This is not strictly enforced and user code has ability to specify/override correct BPF program type after open. But if BPF program is using custom section name, libbpf will still emit warnings, which can be quite annoying to users. This patch reduces log level of information messages emitted by libbpf if section name is not canonical. User can still get a list of all supported section names as debug-level message. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191217234228.1739308-1-andriin@fb.com
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- 17 Dec, 2019 2 commits
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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen authored
This fixes two issues with the newly introduced libbpf_common.h file: - The header failed to include <string.h> for the definition of memset() - The new file was not included in the install_headers rule in the Makefile Both of these issues cause breakage when installing libbpf with 'make install' and trying to use it in applications. Fixes: 544402d4 ("libbpf: Extract common user-facing helpers") Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191217112810.768078-1-toke@redhat.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Similarly to bpftool/libbpf output, make selftests/bpf output succinct per-item output line. Output is roughly as follows: $ make ... CLANG-LLC [test_maps] pyperf600.o CLANG-LLC [test_maps] strobemeta.o CLANG-LLC [test_maps] pyperf100.o EXTRA-OBJ [test_progs] cgroup_helpers.o EXTRA-OBJ [test_progs] trace_helpers.o BINARY test_align BINARY test_verifier_log GEN-SKEL [test_progs] fexit_bpf2bpf.skel.h GEN-SKEL [test_progs] test_global_data.skel.h GEN-SKEL [test_progs] sendmsg6_prog.skel.h ... To see the actual command invocation, verbose mode can be turned on with V=1 argument: $ make V=1 ... very verbose output ... Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191217061425.2346359-1-andriin@fb.com
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- 16 Dec, 2019 17 commits
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
List zlib as another dependency of libbpf in pkg-config template. Verified it is correctly resolved to proper -lz flag: $ make DESTDIR=/tmp/libbpf-install install $ pkg-config --libs /tmp/libbpf-install/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig/libbpf.pc -L/usr/local/lib64 -lbpf $ pkg-config --libs --static /tmp/libbpf-install/usr/local/lib64/pkgconfig/libbpf.pc -L/usr/local/lib64 -lbpf -lelf -lz Fixes: 166750bc ("libbpf: Support libbpf-provided extern variables") Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Cc: Luca Boccassi <bluca@debian.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216183830.3972964-1-andriin@fb.com
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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen authored
Probably the single most common error newcomers to XDP are stumped by is the 'permission denied' error they get when trying to load their program and 'ulimit -l' is set too low. For examples, see [0], [1]. Since the error code is UAPI, we can't change that. Instead, this patch adds a few heuristics in libbpf and outputs an additional hint if they are met: If an EPERM is returned on map create or program load, and geteuid() shows we are root, and the current RLIMIT_MEMLOCK is not infinity, we output a hint about raising 'ulimit -l' as an additional log line. [0] https://marc.info/?l=xdp-newbies&m=157043612505624&w=2 [1] https://github.com/xdp-project/xdp-tutorial/issues/86Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216181204.724953-1-toke@redhat.com
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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen authored
When attaching XDP programs, userspace can set flags to request the attach mode (generic/SKB mode, driver mode or hw offloaded mode). If no such flags are requested, the kernel will attempt to attach in driver mode, and then silently fall back to SKB mode if this fails. The silent fallback is a major source of user confusion, as users will try to load a program on a device without XDP support, and instead of an error they will get the silent fallback behaviour, not notice, and then wonder why performance is not what they were expecting. In an attempt to combat this, let's switch all the samples to default to explicitly requesting driver-mode attach. As part of this, ensure that all the userspace utilities have a switch to enable SKB mode. For those that have a switch to request driver mode, keep it but turn it into a no-op. Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216110742.364456-1-toke@redhat.com
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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen authored
It seems Clang can in some cases turn on stack protection by default, which doesn't work with BPF. This was reported once before[0], but it seems the flag to explicitly turn off the stack protector wasn't added to the Makefile, so do that now. The symptom of this is compile errors like the following: error: <unknown>:0:0: in function bpf_prog1 i32 (%struct.__sk_buff*): A call to built-in function '__stack_chk_fail' is not supported. [0] https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg556400.htmlSigned-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216103819.359535-1-toke@redhat.com
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Toke Høiland-Jørgensen authored
Since libbpf now links against zlib, this needs to be included in the linker invocation for the userspace programs in samples/bpf that link statically against libbpf. Fixes: 166750bc ("libbpf: Support libbpf-provided extern variables") Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216102405.353834-1-toke@redhat.com
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Prashant Bhole authored
Add xdp_redirect and per_socket_stats_example in build targets. They got removed from build targets in Makefile reorganization. Fixes: 1d97c6c2 ("samples/bpf: Base target programs rules on Makefile.target") Signed-off-by: Prashant Bhole <prashantbhole.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216071619.25479-1-prashantbhole.linux@gmail.com
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Paul Chaignon authored
The ident variable has already been declared at the top of the function and doesn't need to be re-declared. Fixes: 985ead41 ("bpftool: Add skeleton codegen command") Signed-off-by: Paul Chaignon <paul.chaignon@orange.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216112733.GA28366@Omicron
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Prashant Bhole authored
In btf__align_of() variable name 't' is shadowed by inner block declaration of another variable with same name. Patch renames variables in order to fix it. CC sharedobjs/btf.o btf.c: In function ‘btf__align_of’: btf.c:303:21: error: declaration of ‘t’ shadows a previous local [-Werror=shadow] 303 | int i, align = 1, t; | ^ btf.c:283:25: note: shadowed declaration is here 283 | const struct btf_type *t = btf__type_by_id(btf, id); | Fixes: 3d208f4c ("libbpf: Expose btf__align_of() API") Signed-off-by: Prashant Bhole <prashantbhole.linux@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Tested-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191216082738.28421-1-prashantbhole.linux@gmail.com
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Alexei Starovoitov authored
Andrii Nakryiko says: ==================== Add support for flexible array accesses in a relocatable manner in BPF CO-RE. It's a typical pattern in C, and kernel in particular, to provide a fixed-length struct with zero-sized or dimensionless array at the end. In such cases variable-sized array contents follows immediately after the end of a struct. This patch set adds support for such access pattern by allowing accesses to such arrays. Patch #1 adds libbpf support. Patch #2 adds few test cases for validation. ==================== Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Add few tests validation CO-RE relocation handling of flexible array accesses. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191215070844.1014385-3-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Some data stuctures in kernel are defined with either zero-sized array or flexible (dimensionless) array at the end of a struct. Actual data of such array follows in memory immediately after the end of that struct, forming its variable-sized "body" of elements. Support such access pattern in CO-RE relocation handling. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191215070844.1014385-2-andriin@fb.com
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Alexei Starovoitov authored
Andrii Nakryiko says: ==================== It's often important for BPF program to know kernel version or some specific config values (e.g., CONFIG_HZ to convert jiffies to seconds) and change or adjust program logic based on their values. As of today, any such need has to be resolved by recompiling BPF program for specific kernel and kernel configuration. In practice this is usually achieved by using BCC and its embedded LLVM/Clang. With such set up #ifdef CONFIG_XXX and similar compile-time constructs allow to deal with kernel varieties. With CO-RE (Compile Once – Run Everywhere) approach, this is not an option, unfortunately. All such logic variations have to be done as a normal C language constructs (i.e., if/else, variables, etc), not a preprocessor directives. This patch series add support for such advanced scenarios through C extern variables. These extern variables will be recognized by libbpf and supplied through extra .extern internal map, similarly to global data. This .extern map is read-only, which allows BPF verifier to track its content precisely as constants. That gives an opportunity to have pre-compiled BPF program, which can potentially use BPF functionality (e.g., BPF helpers) or kernel features (types, fields, etc), that are available only on a subset of targeted kernels, while effectively eleminating (through verifier's dead code detection) such unsupported functionality for other kernels (typically, older versions). Patch #3 explicitly tests a scenario of using unsupported BPF helper, to validate the approach. This patch set heavily relies on BTF type information emitted by compiler for each extern variable declaration. Based on specific types, libbpf does strict checks of config data values correctness. See patch #1 for details. Outline of the patch set: - patch #1 does a small clean up of internal map names contants; - patch #2 adds all of the libbpf internal machinery for externs support, including setting up BTF information for .extern data section; - patch #3 adds support for .extern into BPF skeleton; - patch #4 adds externs selftests, as well as enhances test_skeleton.c test to validate mmap()-ed .extern datasection functionality. v3->v4: - clean up copyrights and rebase onto latest skeleton patches (Alexei); v2->v3: - truncate too long strings (Alexei); - clean ups, adding comments (Alexei); v1->v2: - use BTF type information for externs (Alexei); - add strings support; - add BPF skeleton support for .extern. ==================== Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Add a set of tests validating libbpf-provided extern variables. One crucial feature that's tested is dead code elimination together with using invalid BPF helper. CONFIG_MISSING is not supposed to exist and should always be specified by libbpf as zero, which allows BPF verifier to correctly do branch pruning and not fail validation, when invalid BPF helper is called from dead if branch. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014710.3449601-5-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Add support for generation of mmap()-ed read-only view of libbpf-provided extern variables. As externs are not supposed to be provided by user code (that's what .data, .bss, and .rodata is for), don't mmap() it initially. Only after skeleton load is performed, map .extern contents as read-only memory. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014710.3449601-4-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Add support for extern variables, provided to BPF program by libbpf. Currently the following extern variables are supported: - LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION; version of a kernel in which BPF program is executing, follows KERNEL_VERSION() macro convention, can be 4- and 8-byte long; - CONFIG_xxx values; a set of values of actual kernel config. Tristate, boolean, strings, and integer values are supported. Set of possible values is determined by declared type of extern variable. Supported types of variables are: - Tristate values. Are represented as `enum libbpf_tristate`. Accepted values are **strictly** 'y', 'n', or 'm', which are represented as TRI_YES, TRI_NO, or TRI_MODULE, respectively. - Boolean values. Are represented as bool (_Bool) types. Accepted values are 'y' and 'n' only, turning into true/false values, respectively. - Single-character values. Can be used both as a substritute for bool/tristate, or as a small-range integer: - 'y'/'n'/'m' are represented as is, as characters 'y', 'n', or 'm'; - integers in a range [-128, 127] or [0, 255] (depending on signedness of char in target architecture) are recognized and represented with respective values of char type. - Strings. String values are declared as fixed-length char arrays. String of up to that length will be accepted and put in first N bytes of char array, with the rest of bytes zeroed out. If config string value is longer than space alloted, it will be truncated and warning message emitted. Char array is always zero terminated. String literals in config have to be enclosed in double quotes, just like C-style string literals. - Integers. 8-, 16-, 32-, and 64-bit integers are supported, both signed and unsigned variants. Libbpf enforces parsed config value to be in the supported range of corresponding integer type. Integers values in config can be: - decimal integers, with optional + and - signs; - hexadecimal integers, prefixed with 0x or 0X; - octal integers, starting with 0. Config file itself is searched in /boot/config-$(uname -r) location with fallback to /proc/config.gz, unless config path is specified explicitly through bpf_object_open_opts' kernel_config_path option. Both gzipped and plain text formats are supported. Libbpf adds explicit dependency on zlib because of this, but this shouldn't be a problem, given libelf already depends on zlib. All detected extern variables, are put into a separate .extern internal map. It, similarly to .rodata map, is marked as read-only from BPF program side, as well as is frozen on load. This allows BPF verifier to track extern values as constants and perform enhanced branch prediction and dead code elimination. This can be relied upon for doing kernel version/feature detection and using potentially unsupported field relocations or BPF helpers in a CO-RE-based BPF program, while still having a single version of BPF program running on old and new kernels. Selftests are validating this explicitly for unexisting BPF helper. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014710.3449601-3-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Instead of duplicating string literals, keep them in one place and consistent. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014710.3449601-2-andriin@fb.com
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Alexei Starovoitov authored
Andrii Nakryiko says: ==================== This patch set introduces an alternative and complimentary to existing libbpf API interface for working with BPF objects, maps, programs, and global data from userspace side. This approach is relying on code generation. bpftool produces a struct (a.k.a. skeleton) tailored and specific to provided BPF object file. It includes hard-coded fields and data structures for every map, program, link, and global data present. Altogether this approach significantly reduces amount of userspace boilerplate code required to open, load, attach, and work with BPF objects. It improves attach/detach story, by providing pre-allocated space for bpf_links, and ensuring they are properly detached on shutdown. It allows to do away with by name/title lookups of maps and programs, because libbpf's skeleton API, in conjunction with generated code from bpftool, is filling in hard-coded fields with actual pointers to corresponding struct bpf_map/bpf_program/bpf_link. Also, thanks to BPF array mmap() support, working with global data (variables) from userspace is now as natural as it is from BPF side: each variable is just a struct field inside skeleton struct. Furthermore, this allows to have a natural way for userspace to pre-initialize global data (including previously impossible to initialize .rodata) by just assigning values to the same per-variable fields. Libbpf will carefully take into account this initialization image, will use it to pre-populate BPF maps at creation time, and will re-mmap() BPF map's contents at exactly the same userspace memory address such that it can continue working with all the same pointers without any interruptions. If kernel doesn't support mmap(), global data will still be successfully initialized, but after map creation global data structures inside skeleton will be NULL-ed out. This allows userspace application to gracefully handle lack of mmap() support, if necessary. A bunch of selftests are also converted to using skeletons, demonstrating significant simplification of userspace part of test and reduction in amount of code necessary. v3->v4: - add OPTS_VALID check to btf_dump__emit_type_decl (Alexei); - expose skeleton as LIBBPF_API functions (Alexei); - copyright clean up, update internal map init refactor (Alexei); v2->v3: - make skeleton part of public API; - expose btf_dump__emit_type_decl and btf__align_of APIs; - move LIBBPF_API and DECLARE_LIBBPF_OPTS into libbpf_common.h for reuse; v1->v2: - checkpatch.pl and reverse Christmas tree styling (Jakub); - sanitize variable names to accomodate in-function static vars; rfc->v1: - runqslower moved out into separate patch set waiting for vmlinux.h improvements; - skeleton generation code deals with unknown internal maps more gracefully. ==================== Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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- 15 Dec, 2019 7 commits
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Add BASH completions for gen sub-command. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Cc: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-18-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Add a simple selftests validating datasection-to-struct layour dumping. Global variables are constructed in such a way as to cause both natural and artificial padding (through custom alignment requirement). Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-17-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Convert few more selftests to use generated BPF skeletons as a demonstration on how to use it. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-16-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Add BPF skeleton generation to selftest/bpf's Makefile. Convert attach_probe.c to use skeleton. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-15-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Add `bpftool gen skeleton` command, which takes in compiled BPF .o object file and dumps a BPF skeleton struct and related code to work with that skeleton. Skeleton itself is tailored to a specific structure of provided BPF object file, containing accessors (just plain struct fields) for every map and program, as well as dedicated space for bpf_links. If BPF program is using global variables, corresponding structure definitions of compatible memory layout are emitted as well, making it possible to initialize and subsequently read/update global variables values using simple and clear C syntax for accessing fields. This skeleton majorly improves usability of opening/loading/attaching of BPF object, as well as interacting with it throughout the lifetime of loaded BPF object. Generated skeleton struct has the following structure: struct <object-name> { /* used by libbpf's skeleton API */ struct bpf_object_skeleton *skeleton; /* bpf_object for libbpf APIs */ struct bpf_object *obj; struct { /* for every defined map in BPF object: */ struct bpf_map *<map-name>; } maps; struct { /* for every program in BPF object: */ struct bpf_program *<program-name>; } progs; struct { /* for every program in BPF object: */ struct bpf_link *<program-name>; } links; /* for every present global data section: */ struct <object-name>__<one of bss, data, or rodata> { /* memory layout of corresponding data section, * with every defined variable represented as a struct field * with exactly the same type, but without const/volatile * modifiers, e.g.: */ int *my_var_1; ... } *<one of bss, data, or rodata>; }; This provides great usability improvements: - no need to look up maps and programs by name, instead just my_obj->maps.my_map or my_obj->progs.my_prog would give necessary bpf_map/bpf_program pointers, which user can pass to existing libbpf APIs; - pre-defined places for bpf_links, which will be automatically populated for program types that libbpf knows how to attach automatically (currently tracepoints, kprobe/kretprobe, raw tracepoint and tracing programs). On tearing down skeleton, all active bpf_links will be destroyed (meaning BPF programs will be detached, if they are attached). For cases in which libbpf doesn't know how to auto-attach BPF program, user can manually create link after loading skeleton and they will be auto-detached on skeleton destruction: my_obj->links.my_fancy_prog = bpf_program__attach_cgroup_whatever( my_obj->progs.my_fancy_prog, <whatever extra param); - it's extremely easy and convenient to work with global data from userspace now. Both for read-only and read/write variables, it's possible to pre-initialize them before skeleton is loaded: skel = my_obj__open(raw_embed_data); my_obj->rodata->my_var = 123; my_obj__load(skel); /* 123 will be initialization value for my_var */ After load, if kernel supports mmap() for BPF arrays, user can still read (and write for .bss and .data) variables values, but at that point it will be directly mmap()-ed to BPF array, backing global variables. This allows to seamlessly exchange data with BPF side. From userspace program's POV, all the pointers and memory contents stay the same, but mapped kernel memory changes to point to created map. If kernel doesn't yet support mmap() for BPF arrays, it's still possible to use those data section structs to pre-initialize .bss, .data, and .rodata, but after load their pointers will be reset to NULL, allowing user code to gracefully handle this condition, if necessary. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-14-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
Add new set of APIs, allowing to open/load/attach BPF object through BPF object skeleton, generated by bpftool for a specific BPF object file. All the xxx_skeleton() APIs wrap up corresponding bpf_object_xxx() APIs, but additionally also automate map/program lookups by name, global data initialization and mmap()-ing, etc. All this greatly improves and simplifies userspace usability of working with BPF programs. See follow up patches for examples. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-13-andriin@fb.com
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Andrii Nakryiko authored
It's quite spammy. And now that bpf_object__open() is trying to determine program type from its section name, we are getting these verbose messages all the time. Reduce their log level to DEBUG. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191214014341.3442258-12-andriin@fb.com
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