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Alexei Starovoitov says: ==================== The last few month BPF community has been discussing an approach to call chaining, since exiting bpt_tail_call() mechanism used in production XDP programs has plenty of downsides. The outcome of these discussion was a conclusion to implement dynamic re-linking of BPF programs. Where rootlet XDP program attached to a netdevice can programmatically define a policy of execution of other XDP programs. Such rootlet would be compiled as normal XDP program and provide a number of placeholder global functions which later can be replaced with future XDP programs. BPF trampoline, function by function verification were building blocks towards that goal. The patch 1 is a final building block. It introduces dynamic program extensions. A number of improvements like more flexible function by function verification and better libbpf api will be implemented in future patches. v1->v2: - addressed Andrii's comments - rebase ==================== Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Linux kernel
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