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authorJakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com>2018-05-10 20:24:41 +0300
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2018-05-11 02:40:52 +0300
commit2eb57bb8f6769fe94f8f9865342ffa0f6c257e0a (patch)
tree5f190595b795093ddf2fa8e76a1e82615d3b41fb /tools/lib
parentd0cabbb021bee5c4b831a0235af9534ad07f8d3d (diff)
downloadlinux-2eb57bb8f6769fe94f8f9865342ffa0f6c257e0a.tar.xz
tools: bpf: improve comments in libbpf.h
Fix spelling mistakes, improve and clarify the language of comments in libbpf.h. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@netronome.com> Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin.monnet@netronome.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/lib')
-rw-r--r--tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h48
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
index ce681097584e..4574b9563278 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/libbpf.h
@@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ enum libbpf_errno {
int libbpf_strerror(int err, char *buf, size_t size);
/*
- * In include/linux/compiler-gcc.h, __printf is defined. However
- * it should be better if libbpf.h doesn't depend on Linux header file.
+ * __printf is defined in include/linux/compiler-gcc.h. However,
+ * it would be better if libbpf.h didn't depend on Linux header files.
* So instead of __printf, here we use gcc attribute directly.
*/
typedef int (*libbpf_print_fn_t)(const char *, ...)
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ int bpf_object__set_priv(struct bpf_object *obj, void *priv,
bpf_object_clear_priv_t clear_priv);
void *bpf_object__priv(struct bpf_object *prog);
-/* Accessors of bpf_program. */
+/* Accessors of bpf_program */
struct bpf_program;
struct bpf_program *bpf_program__next(struct bpf_program *prog,
struct bpf_object *obj);
@@ -121,28 +121,28 @@ struct bpf_insn;
/*
* Libbpf allows callers to adjust BPF programs before being loaded
- * into kernel. One program in an object file can be transform into
- * multiple variants to be attached to different code.
+ * into kernel. One program in an object file can be transformed into
+ * multiple variants to be attached to different hooks.
*
* bpf_program_prep_t, bpf_program__set_prep and bpf_program__nth_fd
- * are APIs for this propose.
+ * form an API for this purpose.
*
* - bpf_program_prep_t:
- * It defines 'preprocessor', which is a caller defined function
+ * Defines a 'preprocessor', which is a caller defined function
* passed to libbpf through bpf_program__set_prep(), and will be
* called before program is loaded. The processor should adjust
- * the program one time for each instances according to the number
+ * the program one time for each instance according to the instance id
* passed to it.
*
* - bpf_program__set_prep:
- * Attachs a preprocessor to a BPF program. The number of instances
- * whould be created is also passed through this function.
+ * Attaches a preprocessor to a BPF program. The number of instances
+ * that should be created is also passed through this function.
*
* - bpf_program__nth_fd:
- * After the program is loaded, get resuling fds from bpf program for
- * each instances.
+ * After the program is loaded, get resulting FD of a given instance
+ * of the BPF program.
*
- * If bpf_program__set_prep() is not used, the program whould be loaded
+ * If bpf_program__set_prep() is not used, the program would be loaded
* without adjustment during bpf_object__load(). The program has only
* one instance. In this case bpf_program__fd(prog) is equal to
* bpf_program__nth_fd(prog, 0).
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ struct bpf_prog_prep_result {
struct bpf_insn *new_insn_ptr;
int new_insn_cnt;
- /* If not NULL, result fd is set to it */
+ /* If not NULL, result FD is written to it. */
int *pfd;
};
@@ -169,8 +169,8 @@ struct bpf_prog_prep_result {
* - res: Output parameter, result of transformation.
*
* Return value:
- * - Zero: pre-processing success.
- * - Non-zero: pre-processing, stop loading.
+ * - Zero: pre-processing success.
+ * - Non-zero: pre-processing error, stop loading.
*/
typedef int (*bpf_program_prep_t)(struct bpf_program *prog, int n,
struct bpf_insn *insns, int insns_cnt,
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ int bpf_program__set_prep(struct bpf_program *prog, int nr_instance,
int bpf_program__nth_fd(struct bpf_program *prog, int n);
/*
- * Adjust type of bpf program. Default is kprobe.
+ * Adjust type of BPF program. Default is kprobe.
*/
int bpf_program__set_socket_filter(struct bpf_program *prog);
int bpf_program__set_tracepoint(struct bpf_program *prog);
@@ -206,10 +206,10 @@ bool bpf_program__is_xdp(struct bpf_program *prog);
bool bpf_program__is_perf_event(struct bpf_program *prog);
/*
- * We don't need __attribute__((packed)) now since it is
- * unnecessary for 'bpf_map_def' because they are all aligned.
- * In addition, using it will trigger -Wpacked warning message,
- * and will be treated as an error due to -Werror.
+ * No need for __attribute__((packed)), all members of 'bpf_map_def'
+ * are all aligned. In addition, using __attribute__((packed))
+ * would trigger a -Wpacked warning message, and lead to an error
+ * if -Werror is set.
*/
struct bpf_map_def {
unsigned int type;
@@ -220,8 +220,8 @@ struct bpf_map_def {
};
/*
- * There is another 'struct bpf_map' in include/linux/map.h. However,
- * it is not a uapi header so no need to consider name clash.
+ * The 'struct bpf_map' in include/linux/bpf.h is internal to the kernel,
+ * so no need to worry about a name clash.
*/
struct bpf_map;
struct bpf_map *
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ bpf_object__find_map_by_name(struct bpf_object *obj, const char *name);
/*
* Get bpf_map through the offset of corresponding struct bpf_map_def
- * in the bpf object file.
+ * in the BPF object file.
*/
struct bpf_map *
bpf_object__find_map_by_offset(struct bpf_object *obj, size_t offset);