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This patch implements general and correct logic for bpf-to-bpf sub-program calls. Only sub-programs used (called into) from entry-point (main) BPF program are going to be appended at the end of main BPF program. This ensures that BPF verifier won't encounter any dead code due to copying unreferenced sub-program. This change means that each entry-point (main) BPF program might have a different set of sub-programs appended to it and potentially in different order. This has implications on how sub-program call relocations need to be handled, described below. All relocations are now split into two categores: data references (maps and global variables) and code references (sub-program calls). This distinction is important because data references need to be relocated just once per each BPF program and sub-program. These relocation are agnostic to instruction locations, because they are not code-relative and they are relocating against static targets (maps, variables with fixes offsets, etc). Sub-program RELO_CALL relocations, on the other hand, are highly-dependent on code position, because they are recorded as instruction-relative offset. So BPF sub-programs (those that do calls into other sub-programs) can't be relocated once, they need to be relocated each time such a sub-program is appended at the end of the main entry-point BPF program. As mentioned above, each main BPF program might have different subset and differen order of sub-programs, so call relocations can't be done just once. Splitting data reference and calls relocations as described above allows to do this efficiently and cleanly. bpf_object__find_program_by_name() will now ignore non-entry BPF programs. Previously one could have looked up '.text' fake BPF program, but the existence of such BPF program was always an implementation detail and you can't do much useful with it. Now, though, all non-entry sub-programs get their own BPF program with name corresponding to a function name, so there is no more '.text' name for BPF program. This means there is no regression, effectively, w.r.t. API behavior. But this is important aspect to highlight, because it's going to be critical once libbpf implements static linking of BPF programs. Non-entry static BPF programs will be allowed to have conflicting names, but global and main-entry BPF program names should be unique. Just like with normal user-space linking process. So it's important to restrict this aspect right now, keep static and non-entry functions as internal implementation details, and not have to deal with regressions in behavior later. This patch leaves .BTF.ext adjustment as is until next patch. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200903203542.15944-5-andriin@fb.com |
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Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.