netdev - Re: [PATCH bpf v2 1/2] bpf: simplify definition of BPF_FIB

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Message-ID: <CAEf4BzZHSP=ua_sO=431PXDjNB6mVn7QXFWL12sQAZDjz1D1PQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Jun 2019 23:43:06 -0700
From:   Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>
To:     Martynas Pumputis <m@...bda.lt>
Cc:     Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, bpf <bpf@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf v2 1/2] bpf: simplify definition of BPF_FIB_LOOKUP
 related flags

On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 11:06 AM Martynas Pumputis <m@...bda.lt> wrote:
>
> Previously, the BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_{DIRECT,OUTPUT} flags were defined
> with the help of BIT macro. This had the following issues:
>
> - In order to user any of the flags, a user was required to depend
>   on <linux/bits.h>.
> - No other flag in bpf.h uses the macro, so it seems that an unwritten
>   convention is to use (1 << (nr)) to define BPF-related flags.
>

Makes sense!

Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@...com>

> Signed-off-by: Martynas Pumputis <m@...bda.lt>
> ---
>  include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
> index 63e0cf66f01a..a8f17bc86732 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
> @@ -3376,8 +3376,8 @@ struct bpf_raw_tracepoint_args {
>  /* DIRECT:  Skip the FIB rules and go to FIB table associated with device
>   * OUTPUT:  Do lookup from egress perspective; default is ingress
>   */
> -#define BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_DIRECT  BIT(0)
> -#define BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_OUTPUT  BIT(1)
> +#define BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_DIRECT  (1U << 0)
> +#define BPF_FIB_LOOKUP_OUTPUT  (1U << 1)
>
>  enum {
>         BPF_FIB_LKUP_RET_SUCCESS,      /* lookup successful */
> --
> 2.21.0
>