linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH v4 15/29] bpf tools: Add bpf.c/h for common bpf operations

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Date:	Wed, 27 May 2015 18:55:07 -0700
From:	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@...il.com>
To:	Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>
Cc:	paulus@...ba.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl, mingo@...hat.com,
	acme@...nel.org, namhyung@...nel.org, jolsa@...nel.org,
	dsahern@...il.com, daniel@...earbox.net, brendan.d.gregg@...il.com,
	masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com, lizefan@...wei.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, pi3orama@....com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v4 15/29] bpf tools: Add bpf.c/h for common bpf
 operations

On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 05:19:50AM +0000, Wang Nan wrote:
> This patch introduces bpf.c and bpf.h, which hold common functions
> issuing bpf syscall. The goal of these two files is to hide syscall
> completly from user.  Note that bpf.c and bpf.h only deal with kernel
> interface. Things like structure of 'map' section in the ELF object is
> not cared by of bpf.[ch].
> 
> We first introduce bpf_create_map().
> 
> Note that, since functions in bpf.[ch] are wrapper of sys_bpf, they
> don't use OO style naming.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>

Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>

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