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Pull bpf updates from Alexei Starovoitov: - Support pulling non-linear xdp data with bpf_xdp_pull_data() kfunc (Amery Hung) Applied as a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees. - Support reading skb metadata via bpf_dynptr (Jakub Sitnicki) Also a stable branch in bpf-next and net-next trees. - Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility (Daniel Borkmann) - Replace path-sensitive with path-insensitive live stack analysis in the verifier (Eduard Zingerman) This is a significant change in the verification logic. More details, motivation, long term plans are in the cover letter/merge commit. - Support signed BPF programs (KP Singh) This is another major feature that took years to materialize. Algorithm details are in the cover letter/marge commit - Add support for may_goto instruction to s390 JIT (Ilya Leoshkevich) - Add support for may_goto instruction to arm64 JIT (Puranjay Mohan) - Fix USDT SIB argument handling in libbpf (Jiawei Zhao) - Allow uprobe-bpf program to change context registers (Jiri Olsa) - Support signed loads from BPF arena (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi and Puranjay Mohan) - Allow access to union arguments in tracing programs (Leon Hwang) - Optimize rcu_read_lock() + migrate_disable() combination where it's used in BPF subsystem (Menglong Dong) - Introduce bpf_task_work_schedule*() kfuncs to schedule deferred execution of BPF callback in the context of a specific task using the kernel’s task_work infrastructure (Mykyta Yatsenko) - Enforce RCU protection for KF_RCU_PROTECTED kfuncs (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI (Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi) - Improve the precision of tnum multiplier verifier operation (Nandakumar Edamana) - Use tnums to improve is_branch_taken() logic (Paul Chaignon) - Add support for atomic operations in arena in riscv JIT (Pu Lehui) - Report arena faults to BPF error stream (Puranjay Mohan) - Search for tracefs at /sys/kernel/tracing first in bpftool (Quentin Monnet) - Add bpf_strcasecmp() kfunc (Rong Tao) - Support lookup_and_delete_elem command in BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE (Tao Chen) * tag 'bpf-next-6.18' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next: (197 commits) libbpf: Replace AF_ALG with open coded SHA-256 selftests/bpf: Add stress test for rqspinlock in NMI selftests/bpf: Add test case for different expected_attach_type bpf: Enforce expected_attach_type for tailcall compatibility bpftool: Remove duplicate string.h header bpf: Remove duplicate crypto/sha2.h header libbpf: Fix error when st-prefix_ops and ops from differ btf selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from kfunc selftests/bpf: Add stacktrace map lookup_and_delete_elem test case selftests/bpf: Refactor stacktrace_map case with skeleton bpf: Add lookup_and_delete_elem for BPF_MAP_STACK_TRACE selftests/bpf: Fix flaky bpf_cookie selftest selftests/bpf: Test changing packet data from global functions with a kfunc bpf: Emit struct bpf_xdp_sock type in vmlinux BTF selftests/bpf: Task_work selftest cleanup fixes MAINTAINERS: Delete inactive maintainers from AF_XDP bpf: Mark kfuncs as __noclone selftests/bpf: Add kprobe multi write ctx attach test selftests/bpf: Add kprobe write ctx attach test selftests/bpf: Add uprobe context ip register change test ...
Why we want a copy of kernel headers in tools?
==============================================
There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
adopted the current model.
The way these headers are used in perf are not restricted to just
including them to compile something.
There are sometimes used in scripts that convert defines into string
tables, etc, so some change may break one of these scripts, or new MSRs
may use some different #define pattern, etc.
E.g.:
$ ls -1 tools/perf/trace/beauty/*.sh | head -5
tools/perf/trace/beauty/arch_errno_names.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/drm_ioctl.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsconfig.sh
tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsmount.sh
$
$ tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
static const char *fadvise_advices[] = {
[0] = "NORMAL",
[1] = "RANDOM",
[2] = "SEQUENTIAL",
[3] = "WILLNEED",
[4] = "DONTNEED",
[5] = "NOREUSE",
};
$
The tools/perf/check-headers.sh script, part of the tools/ build
process, points out changes in the original files.
So its important not to touch the copies in tools/ when doing changes in
the original kernel headers, that will be done later, when
check-headers.sh inform about the change to the perf tools hackers.
Another explanation from Ingo Molnar:
It's better than all the alternatives we tried so far:
- Symbolic links and direct #includes: this was the original approach but
was pushed back on from the kernel side, when tooling modified the
headers and broke them accidentally for kernel builds.
- Duplicate self-defined ABI headers like glibc: double the maintenance
burden, double the chance for mistakes, plus there's no tech-driven
notification mechanism to look at new kernel side changes.
What we are doing now is a third option:
- A software-enforced copy-on-write mechanism of kernel headers to
tooling, driven by non-fatal warnings on the tooling side build when
kernel headers get modified:
Warning: Kernel ABI header differences:
diff -u tools/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/fs.h
diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h
...
The tooling policy is to always pick up the kernel side headers as-is,
and integate them into the tooling build. The warnings above serve as a
notification to tooling maintainers that there's changes on the kernel
side.
We've been using this for many years now, and it might seem hacky, but
works surprisingly well.