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LLVM patches ([1] for clang, [2] and [3] for BPF backend) added support for btf_type_tag attributes. This patch added support for the kernel. The main motivation for btf_type_tag is to bring kernel annotations __user, __rcu etc. to btf. With such information available in btf, bpf verifier can detect mis-usages and reject the program. For example, for __user tagged pointer, developers can then use proper helper like bpf_probe_read_user() etc. to read the data. BTF_KIND_TYPE_TAG may also useful for other tracing facility where instead of to require user to specify kernel/user address type, the kernel can detect it by itself with btf. [1] https://reviews.llvm.org/D111199 [2] https://reviews.llvm.org/D113222 [3] https://reviews.llvm.org/D113496 Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211112012609.1505032-1-yhs@fb.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.