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Message-ID: <20200121005348.2769920-1-ast@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2020 16:53:45 -0800
From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
To: <davem@...emloft.net>
CC: <daniel@...earbox.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
<bpf@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 0/3] bpf: Program extensions or dynamic re-linking
The last few month BPF community has been discussing an approach to call
chaining, since exiting bpt_tail_call() mechanism used in production XDP
programs has plenty of downsides. The outcome of these discussion was a
conclusion to implement dynamic re-linking of BPF programs. Where rootlet XDP
program attached to a netdevice can programmatically define a policy of
execution of other XDP programs. Such rootlet would be compiled as normal XDP
program and provide a number of placeholder global functions which later can be
replaced with future XDP programs. BPF trampoline, function by function
verification were building blocks towards that goal. The patch 1 is a final
building block. It introduces dynamic program extensions. A number of
improvements like more flexible function by function verification and better
libbpf api will be implemented in future patches.
v1->v2:
- addressed Andrii's comments
- rebase
Alexei Starovoitov (3):
bpf: Introduce dynamic program extensions
libbpf: Add support for program extensions
selftests/bpf: Add tests for program extensions
include/linux/bpf.h | 10 +-
include/linux/bpf_types.h | 2 +
include/linux/btf.h | 5 +
include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 1 +
kernel/bpf/btf.c | 152 +++++++++++++++++-
kernel/bpf/syscall.c | 15 +-
kernel/bpf/trampoline.c | 41 ++++-
kernel/bpf/verifier.c | 85 +++++++---
tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 1 +
tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c | 3 +-
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.c | 13 +-
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h | 2 +
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.map | 2 +
tools/lib/bpf/libbpf_probes.c | 1 +
.../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/fexit_bpf2bpf.c | 20 ++-
.../selftests/bpf/progs/fexit_bpf2bpf.c | 57 +++++++
.../selftests/bpf/progs/test_pkt_access.c | 8 +-
17 files changed, 384 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)
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2.23.0
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