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authorNamhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>2022-03-14 21:20:41 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2022-04-08 15:24:14 +0300
commit398ac11f4425d1e52aaf0d05d4fc90524e1a5b5e (patch)
tree26a412a78bcb6c88f01106c84849d4e4ea97d584 /include/uapi
parent21b6b8d43d87708c88ae34be67bb6cbba7bc60a0 (diff)
downloadlinux-398ac11f4425d1e52aaf0d05d4fc90524e1a5b5e.tar.xz
bpf: Adjust BPF stack helper functions to accommodate skip > 0
commit ee2a098851bfbe8bcdd964c0121f4246f00ff41e upstream. Let's say that the caller has storage for num_elem stack frames. Then, the BPF stack helper functions walk the stack for only num_elem frames. This means that if skip > 0, one keeps only 'num_elem - skip' frames. This is because it sets init_nr in the perf_callchain_entry to the end of the buffer to save num_elem entries only. I believe it was because the perf callchain code unwound the stack frames until it reached the global max size (sysctl_perf_event_max_stack). However it now has perf_callchain_entry_ctx.max_stack to limit the iteration locally. This simplifies the code to handle init_nr in the BPF callstack entries and removes the confusion with the perf_event's __PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY which sets init_nr to 0. Also change the comment on bpf_get_stack() in the header file to be more explicit what the return value means. Fixes: c195651e565a ("bpf: add bpf_get_stack helper") Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/30a7b5d5-6726-1cc2-eaee-8da2828a9a9c@oracle.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220314182042.71025-1-namhyung@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Based-on-patch-by: Eugene Loh <eugene.loh@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi')
-rw-r--r--include/uapi/linux/bpf.h8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index 791f31dd0abe..7b107ab8af3a 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -2965,8 +2965,8 @@ union bpf_attr {
*
* # sysctl kernel.perf_event_max_stack=<new value>
* Return
- * A non-negative value equal to or less than *size* on success,
- * or a negative error in case of failure.
+ * The non-negative copied *buf* length equal to or less than
+ * *size* on success, or a negative error in case of failure.
*
* long bpf_skb_load_bytes_relative(const void *skb, u32 offset, void *to, u32 len, u32 start_header)
* Description
@@ -4269,8 +4269,8 @@ union bpf_attr {
*
* # sysctl kernel.perf_event_max_stack=<new value>
* Return
- * A non-negative value equal to or less than *size* on success,
- * or a negative error in case of failure.
+ * The non-negative copied *buf* length equal to or less than
+ * *size* on success, or a negative error in case of failure.
*
* long bpf_load_hdr_opt(struct bpf_sock_ops *skops, void *searchby_res, u32 len, u64 flags)
* Description