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Message-ID: <831d49fa-c131-b66a-80d2-65f8172467d5@iogearbox.net>
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 22:08:08 +0200
From: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
To: Mauricio Vasquez B <mauricio.vasquez@...ito.it>,
Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Song Liu <liu.song.a23@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 0/7] Implement queue/stack maps
On 10/18/2018 03:16 PM, Mauricio Vasquez B wrote:
> In some applications this is needed have a pool of free elements, for
> example the list of free L4 ports in a SNAT. None of the current maps allow
> to do it as it is not possible to get any element without having they key
> it is associated to, even if it were possible, the lack of locking mecanishms in
> eBPF would do it almost impossible to be implemented without data races.
>
> This patchset implements two new kind of eBPF maps: queue and stack.
> Those maps provide to eBPF programs the peek, push and pop operations, and for
> userspace applications a new bpf_map_lookup_and_delete_elem() is added.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mauricio Vasquez B <mauricio.vasquez@...ito.it>
>
> v2 -> v3:
> - Remove "almost dead code" in syscall.c
> - Remove unnecessary copy_from_user in bpf_map_lookup_and_delete_elem
> - Rebase
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - Put ARG_PTR_TO_UNINIT_MAP_VALUE logic into a separated patch
> - Fix missing __this_cpu_dec & preempt_enable calls in kernel/bpf/syscall.c
>
> RFC v4 -> v1:
> - Remove roundup to power of 2 in memory allocation
> - Remove count and use a free slot to check if queue/stack is empty
> - Use if + assigment for wrapping indexes
> - Fix some minor style issues
> - Squash two patches together
>
> RFC v3 -> RFC v4:
> - Revert renaming of kernel/bpf/stackmap.c
> - Remove restriction on value size
> - Remove len arguments from peek/pop helpers
> - Add new ARG_PTR_TO_UNINIT_MAP_VALUE
>
> RFC v2 -> RFC v3:
> - Return elements by value instead that by reference
> - Implement queue/stack base on array and head + tail indexes
> - Rename stack trace related files to avoid confusion and conflicts
>
> RFC v1 -> RFC v2:
> - Create two separate maps instead of single one + flags
> - Implement bpf_map_lookup_and_delete syscall
> - Support peek operation
> - Define replacement policy through flags in the update() method
> - Add eBPF side tests
>
> ---
>
> Mauricio Vasquez B (7):
> bpf: rename stack trace map operations
> bpf/syscall: allow key to be null in map functions
> bpf/verifier: add ARG_PTR_TO_UNINIT_MAP_VALUE
> bpf: add queue and stack maps
> bpf: add MAP_LOOKUP_AND_DELETE_ELEM syscall
> Sync uapi/bpf.h to tools/include
> selftests/bpf: add test cases for queue and stack maps
>
>
> include/linux/bpf.h | 7
> include/linux/bpf_types.h | 4
> include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 30 ++
> kernel/bpf/Makefile | 2
> kernel/bpf/core.c | 3
> kernel/bpf/helpers.c | 43 +++
> kernel/bpf/queue_stack_maps.c | 288 ++++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/bpf/stackmap.c | 2
> kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 91 ++++++
> kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 28 ++
> net/core/filter.c | 6
> tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 30 ++
> tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c | 12 +
> tools/lib/bpf/bpf.h | 2
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/Makefile | 5
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/bpf_helpers.h | 7
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_maps.c | 122 ++++++++
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_progs.c | 99 +++++++
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_queue_map.c | 4
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_queue_stack_map.h | 59 ++++
> tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_stack_map.c | 4
> 21 files changed, 834 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 kernel/bpf/queue_stack_maps.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_queue_map.c
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_queue_stack_map.h
> create mode 100644 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/test_stack_map.c
>
> --
>
Series:
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
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