netdev - Re: pull-request: bpf-next 2019-05-31

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Date:   Fri, 31 May 2019 22:18:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     ast@...nel.org
Cc:     daniel@...earbox.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, bpf@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: pull-request: bpf-next 2019-05-31

From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 20:38:13 -0700

> The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.
> 
> Lots of exciting new features in the first PR of this developement cycle!
> The main changes are:
> 
> 1) misc verifier improvements, from Alexei.
> 
> 2) bpftool can now convert btf to valid C, from Andrii.
> 
> 3) verifier can insert explicit ZEXT insn when requested by 32-bit JITs.
>    This feature greatly improves BPF speed on 32-bit architectures. From Jiong.
> 
> 4) cgroups will now auto-detach bpf programs. This fixes issue of thousands
>    bpf programs got stuck in dying cgroups. From Roman.
> 
> 5) new bpf_send_signal() helper, from Yonghong.
> 
> 6) cgroup inet skb programs can signal CN to the stack, from Lawrence.
> 
> 7) miscellaneous cleanups, from many developers.
> 
> Please consider pulling these changes from:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next.git

Pulled, thanks a lot!