Magnus Karlsson b23ab17fd3 libbpf: add support for using AF_XDP sockets
This commit adds AF_XDP support to libbpf. The main reason for this is
to facilitate writing applications that use AF_XDP by offering
higher-level APIs that hide many of the details of the AF_XDP
uapi. This is in the same vein as libbpf facilitates XDP adoption by
offering easy-to-use higher level interfaces of XDP
functionality. Hopefully this will facilitate adoption of AF_XDP, make
applications using it simpler and smaller, and finally also make it
possible for applications to benefit from optimizations in the AF_XDP
user space access code. Previously, people just copied and pasted the
code from the sample application into their application, which is not
desirable.

The interface is composed of two parts:

* Low-level access interface to the four rings and the packet
* High-level control plane interface for creating and setting
  up umems and af_xdp sockets as well as a simple XDP program.

Tested-by: Björn Töpel <bjorn.topel@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Magnus Karlsson <magnus.karlsson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2019-03-02 21:31:13 -08:00
2019-02-15 07:38:45 -08:00

This is a mirror of bpf-next linux tree
(https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next)
bpf-next/tools/lib/bpf directory plus its supporting header files.

The following files will by sync'ed with bpf-next repo:
  src/ <-> bpf-next/tools/lib/bpf/
  include/uapi/linux/bpf_common.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf_common.h
  include/uapi/linux/bpf.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
  include/uapi/linux/btf.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/btf.h
  include/uapi/linux/if_link.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/if_link.h
  include/uapi/linux/netlink.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/uapi/linux/netlink.h
  include/tools/libc_compat.h <-> bpf-next/tools/include/tools/libc_compat.h

Other header files at this repo (include/linux/*.h) are reduced versions of
their counterpart files at bpf-next/tools/include/linux/*.h to make compilation
successful.

Build
=====

To build static library libbpf.a:
  cd src
  make

To build both static libbpf.a and shared libbpf.so libraries in directory
build/ and install them together with libbpf headers in a staging directory
root/:
  cd src
  mkdir build root
  BUILD_SHARED=y OBJDIR=build DESTDIR=root make install
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Automated upstream mirror for libbpf stand-alone build.
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