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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-04-02 11:03:07 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-04-02 11:03:07 -0700 |
| commit | c2bcb4cf021121d7c162e44b7773281891e3abc2 (patch) | |
| tree | 8f37f13ff2292f0435cd523507d40b7a384cb8c6 /Documentation | |
| parent | bd78980be1a68d14524c51c4b4170782fada622b (diff) | |
| parent | 89d69c5d0fbcabd8656459bc8b1a476d6f1efee4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c2bcb4cf021121d7c162e44b7773281891e3abc2.tar.bz2 | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next
Alexei Starovoitov says:
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pull-request: bpf-next 2021-04-01
The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.
We've added 68 non-merge commits during the last 7 day(s) which contain
a total of 70 files changed, 2944 insertions(+), 1139 deletions(-).
The main changes are:
1) UDP support for sockmap, from Cong.
2) Verifier merge conflict resolution fix, from Daniel.
3) xsk selftests enhancements, from Maciej.
4) Unstable helpers aka kernel func calling, from Martin.
5) Batches ops for LPM map, from Pedro.
6) Fix race in bpf_get_local_storage, from Yonghong.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst index 0e15f9b05c9d..437de2a7a5de 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst @@ -258,3 +258,18 @@ Q: Can BPF functionality such as new program or map types, new helpers, etc be added out of kernel module code? A: NO. + +Q: Directly calling kernel function is an ABI? +---------------------------------------------- +Q: Some kernel functions (e.g. tcp_slow_start) can be called +by BPF programs. Do these kernel functions become an ABI? + +A: NO. + +The kernel function protos will change and the bpf programs will be +rejected by the verifier. Also, for example, some of the bpf-callable +kernel functions have already been used by other kernel tcp +cc (congestion-control) implementations. If any of these kernel +functions has changed, both the in-tree and out-of-tree kernel tcp cc +implementations have to be changed. The same goes for the bpf +programs and they have to be adjusted accordingly. |