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author | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2022-08-17 20:29:34 -0700 |
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committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2022-08-17 20:29:36 -0700 |
commit | 3f5f728a7296b5d5b87117d85d3020cc9640f6dd (patch) | |
tree | 0f2ef5085128150fe676767c3e34c66e204dc4cc /Documentation/bpf | |
parent | fd78d07c7c35de260eb89f1be4a1e7487b8092ad (diff) | |
parent | df78da27260c915039b348b164bbc53fa372ba70 (diff) |
Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next
Andrii Nakryiko says:
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bpf-next 2022-08-17
We've added 45 non-merge commits during the last 14 day(s) which contain
a total of 61 files changed, 986 insertions(+), 372 deletions(-).
The main changes are:
1) New bpf_ktime_get_tai_ns() BPF helper to access CLOCK_TAI, from Kurt
Kanzenbach and Jesper Dangaard Brouer.
2) Few clean ups and improvements for libbpf 1.0, from Andrii Nakryiko.
3) Expose crash_kexec() as kfunc for BPF programs, from Artem Savkov.
4) Add ability to define sleepable-only kfuncs, from Benjamin Tissoires.
5) Teach libbpf's bpf_prog_load() and bpf_map_create() to gracefully handle
unsupported names on old kernels, from Hangbin Liu.
6) Allow opting out from auto-attaching BPF programs by libbpf's BPF skeleton,
from Hao Luo.
7) Relax libbpf's requirement for shared libs to be marked executable, from
Henqgi Chen.
8) Improve bpf_iter internals handling of error returns, from Hao Luo.
9) Few accommodations in libbpf to support GCC-BPF quirks, from James Hilliard.
10) Fix BPF verifier logic around tracking dynptr ref_obj_id, from Joanne Koong.
11) bpftool improvements to handle full BPF program names better, from Manu
Bretelle.
12) bpftool fixes around libcap use, from Quentin Monnet.
13) BPF map internals clean ups and improvements around memory allocations,
from Yafang Shao.
14) Allow to use cgroup_get_from_file() on cgroupv1, allowing BPF cgroup
iterator to work on cgroupv1, from Yosry Ahmed.
15) BPF verifier internal clean ups, from Dave Marchevsky and Joanne Koong.
16) Various fixes and clean ups for selftests/bpf and vmtest.sh, from Daniel
Xu, Artem Savkov, Joanne Koong, Andrii Nakryiko, Shibin Koikkara Reeny.
* https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (45 commits)
selftests/bpf: Few fixes for selftests/bpf built in release mode
libbpf: Clean up deprecated and legacy aliases
libbpf: Streamline bpf_attr and perf_event_attr initialization
libbpf: Fix potential NULL dereference when parsing ELF
selftests/bpf: Tests libbpf autoattach APIs
libbpf: Allows disabling auto attach
selftests/bpf: Fix attach point for non-x86 arches in test_progs/lsm
libbpf: Making bpf_prog_load() ignore name if kernel doesn't support
selftests/bpf: Update CI kconfig
selftests/bpf: Add connmark read test
selftests/bpf: Add existing connection bpf_*_ct_lookup() test
bpftool: Clear errno after libcap's checks
bpf: Clear up confusion in bpf_skb_adjust_room()'s documentation
bpftool: Fix a typo in a comment
libbpf: Add names for auxiliary maps
bpf: Use bpf_map_area_alloc consistently on bpf map creation
bpf: Make __GFP_NOWARN consistent in bpf map creation
bpf: Use bpf_map_area_free instread of kvfree
bpf: Remove unneeded memset in queue_stack_map creation
libbpf: preserve errno across pr_warn/pr_info/pr_debug
...
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Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220817215656.1180215-1-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/bpf')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst b/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst index c0b7dae6dbf5..781731749e55 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/kfuncs.rst @@ -146,6 +146,21 @@ that operate (change some property, perform some operation) on an object that was obtained using an acquire kfunc. Such kfuncs need an unchanged pointer to ensure the integrity of the operation being performed on the expected object. +2.4.6 KF_SLEEPABLE flag +----------------------- + +The KF_SLEEPABLE flag is used for kfuncs that may sleep. Such kfuncs can only +be called by sleepable BPF programs (BPF_F_SLEEPABLE). + +2.4.7 KF_DESTRUCTIVE flag +-------------------------- + +The KF_DESTRUCTIVE flag is used to indicate functions calling which is +destructive to the system. For example such a call can result in system +rebooting or panicking. Due to this additional restrictions apply to these +calls. At the moment they only require CAP_SYS_BOOT capability, but more can be +added later. + 2.5 Registering the kfuncs -------------------------- |