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This series adds support to allow bpf program calling kernel function.

The use case included in this set is to allow bpf-tcp-cc to directly
call some tcp-cc helper functions (e.g. "tcp_cong_avoid_ai()").  Those
functions have already been used by some kernel tcp-cc implementations.

This set will also allow the bpf-tcp-cc program to directly call the
kernel tcp-cc implementation,  For example, a bpf_dctcp may only want to
implement its own dctcp_cwnd_event() and reuse other dctcp_*() directly
from the kernel tcp_dctcp.c instead of reimplementing (or
copy-and-pasting) them.

The tcp-cc kernel functions mentioned above will be white listed
for the struct_ops bpf-tcp-cc programs to use in a later patch.
The white listed functions are not bounded to a fixed ABI contract.
Those functions have already been used by the existing kernel tcp-cc.
If any of them has changed, both in-tree and out-of-tree kernel tcp-cc
implementations have to be changed.  The same goes for the struct_ops
bpf-tcp-cc programs which have to be adjusted accordingly.

Please see individual patch for details.

v2:
- Patch 2 in v1 is removed.  No need to support extern func in kernel.
  Changed libbpf to adjust the .ksyms datasec for extern func
  in patch 11. (Andrii)
- Name change: btf_check_func_arg_match() and btf_check_subprog_arg_match()
  in patch 2. (Andrii)
- Always set unreliable on any error in patch 2 since it does not
  matter. (Andrii)
- s/kern_func/kfunc/ and s/descriptor/desc/ in this set. (Andrii)
- Remove some unnecessary changes in disasm.h and disasm.c
  in patch 3.  In particular, no need to change the function
  signature in bpf_insn_revmap_call_t.  Also, removed the changes
  in print_bpf_insn().
- Fixed an issue in check_kfunc_call() when the calling kernel function
  returns a pointer in patch 3.  Added a selftest.
- Adjusted the verifier selftests due to the changes in the verifier log
  in patch 3.
- Fixed a comparison issue in kfunc_desc_cmp_by_imm() in patch 3. (Andrii)
- Name change: is_ldimm64_insn(),
  new helper: is_call_insn() in patch 10 (Andrii)
- Move btf_func_linkage() from btf.h to libbpf.c in patch 11. (Andrii)
- Fixed the linker error when CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL is not defined.
  Moved the check_kfunc_call from filter.c to test_run.c in patch 14.
  (kernel test robot)
====================

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2021-03-26 20:41:52 -07:00
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Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

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.