The current documentation suggests that we would need to bump the
libbpf version on every change. Lets clarify this a bit more and
reflect what we do today in practice, that is, bumping it once per
development cycle.
Fixes: 76d1b894c5 ("libbpf: Document API and ABI conventions")
Reported-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
This commit adds AF_XDP support to libbpf. The main reason for this is
to facilitate writing applications that use AF_XDP by offering
higher-level APIs that hide many of the details of the AF_XDP
uapi. This is in the same vein as libbpf facilitates XDP adoption by
offering easy-to-use higher level interfaces of XDP
functionality. Hopefully this will facilitate adoption of AF_XDP, make
applications using it simpler and smaller, and finally also make it
possible for applications to benefit from optimizations in the AF_XDP
user space access code. Previously, people just copied and pasted the
code from the sample application into their application, which is not
desirable.
The interface is composed of two parts:
* Low-level access interface to the four rings and the packet
* High-level control plane interface for creating and setting
up umems and af_xdp sockets as well as a simple XDP program.
Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Given this came up couple of times, add a note to libbpf's readme
about the semi-automated mirror for a stand-alone build which is
officially managed by BPF folks. While at it, also explicitly state
the libbpf license in the readme file.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
The whole libbpf is licensed as (LGPL-2.1 OR BSD-2-Clause). I missed it
while adding README.rst. Fix it and use same license as all other files
in libbpf do. Since I'm the only author of README.rst so far, no others'
permissions should be needed.
Fixes: 76d1b894c5 ("libbpf: Document API and ABI conventions")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Document API and ABI for libbpf: naming convention, symbol visibility,
ABI versioning.
This is just a starting point. Documentation can be significantly
extended in the future to cover more topics.
ABI versioning section touches only a few basic points with a link to
more comprehensive documentation from Ulrich Drepper. This section can
be extended in the future when there is better understanding what works
well and what not so well in libbpf development process and production
usage.
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
