Yonghong Song b74e21ab7d samples/bpf: silence compiler warning for xdpsock_user.c
Compiling xdpsock_user.c with 4.8.5, I hit the following
compilation warning:
    HOSTCC  samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.o
  /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c: In function ‘main’:
  /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c:449:6: warning: ‘idx_cq’ may be used unini
  tialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
    u32 idx_cq, idx_fq;
        ^
  /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c:606:7: warning: ‘idx_rx’ may be used unini
  tialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
     u32 idx_rx, idx_tx = 0;
         ^
  /data/users/yhs/work/net-next/samples/bpf/xdpsock_user.c:506:6: warning: ‘idx_rx’ may be used unini
  tialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
    u32 idx_rx, idx_fq = 0;

As an example, the code pattern looks like:
    u32 idx_cq;
    ...
    ret = xsk_ring_prod__reserve(&xsk->umem->fq, rcvd, &idx_fq);
    if (ret) {
      ...
    }
    ... idx_fq ...
The compiler warns since it does not know whether &idx_fq is assigned
or not inside the library function xsk_ring_prod__reserve().

Let us assign an initial value 0 to such auto variables to silence
compiler warning.

Fixes: 248c7f9c0e21 ("samples/bpf: convert xdpsock to use libbpf for AF_XDP access")
Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Lemon <jonathan.lemon@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2019-03-02 01:07:10 +01:00
..
2015-06-23 06:09:58 -07:00
2019-03-01 00:53:45 +01:00

eBPF sample programs
====================

This directory contains a test stubs, verifier test-suite and examples
for using eBPF. The examples use libbpf from tools/lib/bpf.

Build dependencies
==================

Compiling requires having installed:
 * clang >= version 3.4.0
 * llvm >= version 3.7.1

Note that LLVM's tool 'llc' must support target 'bpf', list version
and supported targets with command: ``llc --version``

Kernel headers
--------------

There are usually dependencies to header files of the current kernel.
To avoid installing devel kernel headers system wide, as a normal
user, simply call::

 make headers_install

This will creates a local "usr/include" directory in the git/build top
level directory, that the make system automatically pickup first.

Compiling
=========

For building the BPF samples, issue the below command from the kernel
top level directory::

 make samples/bpf/

Do notice the "/" slash after the directory name.

It is also possible to call make from this directory.  This will just
hide the the invocation of make as above with the appended "/".

Manually compiling LLVM with 'bpf' support
------------------------------------------

Since version 3.7.0, LLVM adds a proper LLVM backend target for the
BPF bytecode architecture.

By default llvm will build all non-experimental backends including bpf.
To generate a smaller llc binary one can use::

 -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="BPF"

Quick sniplet for manually compiling LLVM and clang
(build dependencies are cmake and gcc-c++)::

 $ git clone http://llvm.org/git/llvm.git
 $ cd llvm/tools
 $ git clone --depth 1 http://llvm.org/git/clang.git
 $ cd ..; mkdir build; cd build
 $ cmake .. -DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD="BPF;X86"
 $ make -j $(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)

It is also possible to point make to the newly compiled 'llc' or
'clang' command via redefining LLC or CLANG on the make command line::

 make samples/bpf/ LLC=~/git/llvm/build/bin/llc CLANG=~/git/llvm/build/bin/clang

Cross compiling samples
-----------------------
In order to cross-compile, say for arm64 targets, export CROSS_COMPILE and ARCH
environment variables before calling make. This will direct make to build
samples for the cross target.

export ARCH=arm64
export CROSS_COMPILE="aarch64-linux-gnu-"
make samples/bpf/ LLC=~/git/llvm/build/bin/llc CLANG=~/git/llvm/build/bin/clang