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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-05 20:13:21 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2020-08-05 20:13:21 -0700 |
commit | 47ec5303d73ea344e84f46660fff693c57641386 (patch) | |
tree | a2252debab749de29620c43285295d60c4741119 /Documentation | |
parent | 8186749621ed6b8fc42644c399e8c755a2b6f630 (diff) | |
parent | c1055b76ad00aed0e8b79417080f212d736246b6 (diff) |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller:
1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan.
2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet.
3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal
Kulkarni.
4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading,
from Po Liu.
5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni.
6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian
Vazquez.
7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from
Yonghong Song.
8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via
devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit.
9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson.
10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell.
11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to
maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko.
12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav
Gupta.
13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry
Yakunin.
14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov.
15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine
Tenart.
16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song.
17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov.
18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan.
19) Fix the ->ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several
drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck.
20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov.
21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal.
22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree.
23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce.
24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni.
25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic
infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski.
26) Several pci_ --> dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET.
27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel.
28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki.
29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to
avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig.
30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn.
31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei.
32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin.
33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin.
34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal.
35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano
Brivio.
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits)
net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage
usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS
usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure
hso: fix bailout in error case of probe
ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM
selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test
mptcp: be careful on subflow creation
selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result
selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test
net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch
tipc: set ub->ifindex for local ipv6 address
ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find()
net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning
Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit"
ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period
farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API
hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down
dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning
net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
102 files changed, 1521 insertions, 362 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/btf.rst b/Documentation/bpf/btf.rst index 4d565d202ce3..b5361b8621c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/btf.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/btf.rst @@ -691,6 +691,42 @@ kernel API, the ``insn_off`` is the instruction offset in the unit of ``struct bpf_insn``. For ELF API, the ``insn_off`` is the byte offset from the beginning of section (``btf_ext_info_sec->sec_name_off``). +4.2 .BTF_ids section +==================== + +The .BTF_ids section encodes BTF ID values that are used within the kernel. + +This section is created during the kernel compilation with the help of +macros defined in ``include/linux/btf_ids.h`` header file. Kernel code can +use them to create lists and sets (sorted lists) of BTF ID values. + +The ``BTF_ID_LIST`` and ``BTF_ID`` macros define unsorted list of BTF ID values, +with following syntax:: + + BTF_ID_LIST(list) + BTF_ID(type1, name1) + BTF_ID(type2, name2) + +resulting in following layout in .BTF_ids section:: + + __BTF_ID__type1__name1__1: + .zero 4 + __BTF_ID__type2__name2__2: + .zero 4 + +The ``u32 list[];`` variable is defined to access the list. + +The ``BTF_ID_UNUSED`` macro defines 4 zero bytes. It's used when we +want to define unused entry in BTF_ID_LIST, like:: + + BTF_ID_LIST(bpf_skb_output_btf_ids) + BTF_ID(struct, sk_buff) + BTF_ID_UNUSED + BTF_ID(struct, task_struct) + +All the BTF ID lists and sets are compiled in the .BTF_ids section and +resolved during the linking phase of kernel build by ``resolve_btfids`` tool. + 5. Using BTF ************ |