History log of /linux-master/kernel/bpf/preload/bpf_preload.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# cb80ddc6 09-Feb-2022 Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

bpf: Convert bpf_preload.ko to use light skeleton.

The main change is a move of the single line
#include "iterators.lskel.h"
from iterators/iterators.c to bpf_preload_kern.c.
Which means that generated light skeleton can be used from user space or
user mode driver like iterators.c or from the kernel module or the kernel itself.
The direct use of light skeleton from the kernel module simplifies the code,
since UMD is no longer necessary. The libbpf.a required user space and UMD. The
CO-RE in the kernel and generated "loader bpf program" used by the light
skeleton are capable to perform complex loading operations traditionally
provided by libbpf. In addition UMD approach was launching UMD process
every time bpffs has to be mounted. With light skeleton in the kernel
the bpf_preload kernel module loads bpf iterators once and pins them
multiple times into different bpffs mounts.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220209232001.27490-6-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com


# d71fa5c9 18-Aug-2020 Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>

bpf: Add kernel module with user mode driver that populates bpffs.

Add kernel module with user mode driver that populates bpffs with
BPF iterators.

$ mount bpffs /my/bpffs/ -t bpf
$ ls -la /my/bpffs/
total 4
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 0 Jul 2 00:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 19 root root 4096 Jul 2 00:09 ..
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 00:27 maps.debug
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jul 2 00:27 progs.debug

The user mode driver will load BPF Type Formats, create BPF maps, populate BPF
maps, load two BPF programs, attach them to BPF iterators, and finally send two
bpf_link IDs back to the kernel.
The kernel will pin two bpf_links into newly mounted bpffs instance under
names "progs.debug" and "maps.debug". These two files become human readable.

$ cat /my/bpffs/progs.debug
id name attached
11 dump_bpf_map bpf_iter_bpf_map
12 dump_bpf_prog bpf_iter_bpf_prog
27 test_pkt_access
32 test_main test_pkt_access test_pkt_access
33 test_subprog1 test_pkt_access_subprog1 test_pkt_access
34 test_subprog2 test_pkt_access_subprog2 test_pkt_access
35 test_subprog3 test_pkt_access_subprog3 test_pkt_access
36 new_get_skb_len get_skb_len test_pkt_access
37 new_get_skb_ifindex get_skb_ifindex test_pkt_access
38 new_get_constant get_constant test_pkt_access

The BPF program dump_bpf_prog() in iterators.bpf.c is printing this data about
all BPF programs currently loaded in the system. This information is unstable
and will change from kernel to kernel as ".debug" suffix conveys.

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200819042759.51280-4-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com