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| author | Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com> | 2018-12-14 13:55:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> | 2018-12-15 01:31:49 +0100 |
| commit | bd0fb9d0078edbfa2c983ad61901d90f1c0f5747 (patch) | |
| tree | 5beebb8963d881e81f3378cf513bc4515057349f /tools/bpf | |
| parent | 32870ba4078c3b4deac7ccb35b078c9ab69488a3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bd0fb9d0078edbfa2c983ad61901d90f1c0f5747.tar.bz2 | |
tools: bpftool: add a prog array map update example to documentation
Add an example in map documentation to show how to use bpftool in order
to update the references to programs hold by prog array maps.
Signed-off-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com>
Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/bpf')
| -rw-r--r-- | tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-map.rst | 55 |
1 files changed, 55 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-map.rst b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-map.rst index 5318dcb2085e..3221be1b9ccc 100644 --- a/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-map.rst +++ b/tools/bpf/bpftool/Documentation/bpftool-map.rst @@ -170,6 +170,61 @@ The following three commands are equivalent: | **# bpftool map pin id 10 /sys/fs/bpf/map** | **# bpftool map del pinned /sys/fs/bpf/map key 13 00 07 00** +Note that map update can also be used in order to change the program references +hold by a program array map. This can be used, for example, to change the +programs used for tail-call jumps at runtime, without having to reload the +entry-point program. Below is an example for this use case: we load a program +defining a prog array map, and with a main function that contains a tail call +to other programs that can be used either to "process" packets or to "debug" +processing. Note that the prog array map MUST be pinned into the BPF virtual +file system for the map update to work successfully, as kernel flushes prog +array maps when they have no more references from user space (and the update +would be lost as soon as bpftool exits). + +| +| **# bpftool prog loadall tail_calls.o /sys/fs/bpf/foo type xdp** +| **# bpftool prog --bpffs** + +:: + + 545: xdp name main_func tag 674b4b5597193dc3 gpl + loaded_at 2018-12-12T15:02:58+0000 uid 0 + xlated 240B jited 257B memlock 4096B map_ids 294 + pinned /sys/fs/bpf/foo/xdp + 546: xdp name bpf_func_process tag e369a529024751fc gpl + loaded_at 2018-12-12T15:02:58+0000 uid 0 + xlated 200B jited 164B memlock 4096B + pinned /sys/fs/bpf/foo/process + 547: xdp name bpf_func_debug tag 0b597868bc7f0976 gpl + loaded_at 2018-12-12T15:02:58+0000 uid 0 + xlated 200B jited 164B memlock 4096B + pinned /sys/fs/bpf/foo/debug + +**# bpftool map** + +:: + + 294: prog_array name jmp_table flags 0x0 + key 4B value 4B max_entries 1 memlock 4096B + owner_prog_type xdp owner jited + +| +| **# bpftool map pin id 294 /sys/fs/bpf/bar** +| **# bpftool map dump pinned /sys/fs/bpf/bar** + +:: + + Found 0 elements + +| +| **# bpftool map update pinned /sys/fs/bpf/bar key 0 0 0 0 value pinned /sys/fs/bpf/foo/debug** +| **# bpftool map dump pinned /sys/fs/bpf/bar** + +:: + + key: 00 00 00 00 value: 22 02 00 00 + Found 1 element + SEE ALSO ======== **bpf**\ (2), |