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Yonghong Song b5ea834dde bpf: Support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG

LLVM14 added support for a new C attribute ([1])
  __attribute__((btf_tag("arbitrary_str")))
This attribute will be emitted to dwarf ([2]) and pahole
will convert it to BTF. Or for bpf target, this
attribute will be emitted to BTF directly ([3], [4]).
The attribute is intended to provide additional
information for
  - struct/union type or struct/union member
  - static/global variables
  - static/global function or function parameter.

For linux kernel, the btf_tag can be applied
in various places to specify user pointer,
function pre- or post- condition, function
allow/deny in certain context, etc. Such information
will be encoded in vmlinux BTF and can be used
by verifier.

The btf_tag can also be applied to bpf programs
to help global verifiable functions, e.g.,
specifying preconditions, etc.

This patch added basic parsing and checking support
in kernel for new BTF_KIND_TAG kind.

 [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D106614
 [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D106621
 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D106622
 [4] https://reviews.llvm.org/D109560

Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210914223015.245546-1-yhs@fb.com

2021-09-14 18:45:52 -07:00

acpi

Kbuild updates for v5.15

2021-09-03 15:33:47 -07:00

asm-generic

printk changes for 5.15

2021-09-01 18:41:13 -07:00

clocksource

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crypto

Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

2021-08-30 12:57:10 -07:00