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Currently the way to pass result from BPF helper to BPF program is to provide memory area defined by pointer and size: func(void *, size_t). It works great for generic use-case, but for simple types, such as int, it's overkill and consumes two arguments when it could use just one. Introduce new argument types ARG_PTR_TO_INT and ARG_PTR_TO_LONG to be able to pass result from helper to program via pointer to int and long correspondingly: func(int *) or func(long *). New argument types are similar to ARG_PTR_TO_MEM with the following differences: * they don't require corresponding ARG_CONST_SIZE argument, predefined access sizes are used instead (32bit for int, 64bit for long); * it's possible to use more than one such an argument in a helper; * provided pointers have to be aligned. It's easy to introduce similar ARG_PTR_TO_CHAR and ARG_PTR_TO_SHORT argument types. It's not done due to lack of use-case though. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> |
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arraymap.c | ||
bpf_lru_list.c | ||
bpf_lru_list.h | ||
btf.c | ||
cgroup.c | ||
core.c | ||
cpumap.c | ||
devmap.c | ||
disasm.c | ||
disasm.h | ||
hashtab.c | ||
helpers.c | ||
inode.c | ||
local_storage.c | ||
lpm_trie.c | ||
Makefile | ||
map_in_map.c | ||
map_in_map.h | ||
offload.c | ||
percpu_freelist.c | ||
percpu_freelist.h | ||
queue_stack_maps.c | ||
reuseport_array.c | ||
stackmap.c | ||
syscall.c | ||
tnum.c | ||
verifier.c | ||
xskmap.c |