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Introduce sleepable BPF programs that can request such property for themselves via BPF_F_SLEEPABLE flag at program load time. In such case they will be able to use helpers like bpf_copy_from_user() that might sleep. At present only fentry/fexit/fmod_ret and lsm programs can request to be sleepable and only when they are attached to kernel functions that are known to allow sleeping. The non-sleepable programs are relying on implicit rcu_read_lock() and migrate_disable() to protect life time of programs, maps that they use and per-cpu kernel structures used to pass info between bpf programs and the kernel. The sleepable programs cannot be enclosed into rcu_read_lock(). migrate_disable() maps to preempt_disable() in non-RT kernels, so the progs should not be enclosed in migrate_disable() as well. Therefore rcu_read_lock_trace is used to protect the life time of sleepable progs. There are many networking and tracing program types. In many cases the 'struct bpf_prog *' pointer itself is rcu protected within some other kernel data structure and the kernel code is using rcu_dereference() to load that program pointer and call BPF_PROG_RUN() on it. All these cases are not touched. Instead sleepable bpf programs are allowed with bpf trampoline only. The program pointers are hard-coded into generated assembly of bpf trampoline and synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() is used to protect the life time of the program. The same trampoline can hold both sleepable and non-sleepable progs. When rcu_read_lock_trace is held it means that some sleepable bpf program is running from bpf trampoline. Those programs can use bpf arrays and preallocated hash/lru maps. These map types are waiting on programs to complete via synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(); Updates to trampoline now has to do synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() and synchronize_rcu_tasks() to wait for sleepable progs to finish and for trampoline assembly to finish. This is the first step of introducing sleepable progs. Eventually dynamically allocated hash maps can be allowed and networking program types can become sleepable too. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Josef Bacik <josef@toxicpanda.com> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Acked-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@google.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200827220114.69225-3-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
This is a mirror of bpf-next Linux source
tree's
tools/lib/bpf directory plus its supporting header files.
All the gory details of syncing can be found in scripts/sync-kernel.sh
script.
Some header files in this repo (include/linux/*.h) are reduced versions of
their counterpart files at
bpf-next's
tools/include/linux/*.h to make compilation successful.
BPF questions
All general BPF questions, including kernel functionality, libbpf APIs and their application, should be sent to bpf@vger.kernel.org mailing list. You can subscribe to it here and search its archive here. Please search the archive before asking new questions. It very well might be that this was already addressed or answered before.
bpf@vger.kernel.org is monitored by many more people and they will happily try to help you with whatever issue you have. This repository's PRs and issues should be opened only for dealing with issues pertaining to specific way this libbpf mirror repo is set up and organized.
Build
libelf is an internal dependency of libbpf and thus it is required to link
against and must be installed on the system for applications to work.
pkg-config is used by default to find libelf, and the program called can be
overridden with PKG_CONFIG.
If using pkg-config at build time is not desired, it can be disabled by
setting NO_PKG_CONFIG=1 when calling make.
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so:
$ cd src
$ make
To build only static libbpf.a library in directory build/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a staging directory root/:
$ cd src
$ mkdir build root
$ BUILD_STATIC_ONLY=y OBJDIR=build DESTDIR=root make install
To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so against a custom libelf dependency installed in /build/root/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a build directory /build/root/:
$ cd src
$ PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/build/root/lib64/pkgconfig DESTDIR=/build/root make install
Distributions
Distributions packaging libbpf from this mirror:
Benefits of packaging from the mirror over packaging from kernel sources:
- Consistent versioning across distributions.
- No ties to any specific kernel, transparent handling of older kernels. Libbpf is designed to be kernel-agnostic and work across multitude of kernel versions. It has built-in mechanisms to gracefully handle older kernels, that are missing some of the features, by working around or gracefully degrading functionality. Thus libbpf is not tied to a specific kernel version and can/should be packaged and versioned independently.
- Continuous integration testing via TravisCI.
- Static code analysis via LGTM and Coverity.
Package dependencies of libbpf, package names may vary across distros:
- zlib
- libelf
BPF CO-RE (Compile Once – Run Everywhere)
Libbpf supports building BPF CO-RE-enabled applications, which, in contrast to BCC, do not require Clang/LLVM runtime being deployed to target servers and doesn't rely on kernel-devel headers being available.
It does rely on kernel to be built with BTF type information, though. Some major Linux distributions come with kernel BTF already built in:
- Fedora 31+
- RHEL 8.2+
- OpenSUSE Tumbleweed (in the next release, as of 2020-06-04)
- Arch Linux (from kernel 5.7.1.arch1-1)
If your kernel doesn't come with BTF built-in, you'll need to build custom kernel. You'll need:
pahole1.16+ tool (part ofdwarvespackage), which performs DWARF to BTF conversion;- kernel built with
CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO_BTF=yoption; - you can check if your kernel has BTF built-in by looking for
/sys/kernel/btf/vmlinuxfile:
$ ls -la /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
-r--r--r--. 1 root root 3541561 Jun 2 18:16 /sys/kernel/btf/vmlinux
To develop and build BPF programs, you'll need Clang/LLVM 10+. The following distributions have Clang/LLVM 10+ packaged by default:
- Fedora 32+
- Ubuntu 20.04+
- Arch Linux
Otherwise, please make sure to update it on your system.
The following resources are useful to understand what BPF CO-RE is and how to use it:
- BPF Portability and CO-RE
- HOWTO: BCC to libbpf conversion
- libbpf-tools in BCC repo contain lots of real-world tools converted from BCC to BPF CO-RE. Consider converting some more to both contribute to the BPF community and gain some more experience with it.
License
This work is dual-licensed under BSD 2-clause license and GNU LGPL v2.1 license. You can choose between one of them if you use this work.
SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause OR LGPL-2.1