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2022-03-10Documentation/bpf: Add documentation for BPF_PROG_RUNToke Høiland-Jørgensen1-0/+1
This adds documentation for the BPF_PROG_RUN command; a short overview of the command itself, and a more verbose description of the "live packet" mode for XDP introduced in the previous commit. Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20220309105346.100053-3-toke@redhat.com
2021-12-31bpf, docs: Split the comparism to classic BPF from instruction-set.rstChristoph Hellwig1-0/+1
Split the introductory that explain eBPF vs classic BPF and how it maps to hardware from the instruction set specification into a standalone document. This duplicates a little bit of information but gives us a useful reference for the eBPF instrution set that is not encumbered by classic BPF. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211223101906.977624-3-hch@lst.de
2021-11-30bpf, docs: Split general purpose eBPF documentation out of filter.rstChristoph Hellwig1-5/+4
filter.rst starts out documenting the classic BPF and then spills into introducing and documentating eBPF. Move the eBPF documentation into rwo new files under Documentation/bpf/ for the instruction set and the verifier and link to the BPF documentation from filter.rst. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Acked-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211119163215.971383-6-hch@lst.de
2021-11-18bpf, docs: Fix ordering of bpf documentationDave Tucker1-84/+13
This commit fixes the display of the BPF documentation in the sidebar when rendered as HTML. Before this patch, the sidebar would render as follows for some sections: | BPF Documentation |- BPF Type Format (BTF) |- BPF Type Format (BTF) This was due to creating a heading in index.rst followed by a sphinx toctree, where the file referenced carries the same title as the section heading. To fix this I applied a pattern that has been established in other subfolders of Documentation: 1. Re-wrote index.rst to have a single toctree 2. Split the sections out in to their own files Additionally maps.rst and programs.rst make use of a glob pattern to include map_* or prog_* rst files in their toctree, meaning future map or program type documentation will be automatically included. Signed-off-by: Dave Tucker <dave@dtucker.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1a1eed800e7b9dc13b458de113a489641519b0cc.1636749493.git.dave@dtucker.co.uk
2021-09-23bpf: Document BPF licensing.Alexei Starovoitov1-0/+9
Document and clarify BPF licensing. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com> Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Joe Stringer <joe@cilium.io> Acked-by: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com> Acked-by: Dave Thaler <dthaler@microsoft.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com> Acked-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210917230034.51080-1-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
2021-08-17bpf: Reconfigure libbpf docs to remove unversioned APIgrantseltzer1-9/+1
This removes the libbpf_api.rst file from the kernel documentation. The intention for this file was to pull documentation from comments above API functions in libbpf. However, due to limitations of the kernel documentation system, this API documentation could not be versioned, which is counterintuative to how users expect to use it. There is also currently no doc comments, making this a blank page. Once the kernel comment documentation is actually contributed, it will still exist in the kernel repository, just in the code itself. A seperate site is being spun up to generate documentaiton from those comments in a way in which it can be versioned properly. This also reconfigures the bpf documentation index page to make it easier to sync to the previously mentioned documentaiton site. Signed-off-by: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210810020508.280639-1-grantseltzer@gmail.com
2021-06-19bpf: Add documentation for libbpf including API autogenGrant Seltzer1-0/+13
This patch is meant to start the initiative to document libbpf. It includes .rst files which are text documentation describing building, API naming convention, as well as an index to generated API documentation. In this approach the generated API documentation is enabled by the kernels existing kernel documentation system which uses sphinx. The resulting docs would then be synced to kernel.org/doc You can test this by running `make htmldocs` and serving the html in Documentation/output. Since libbpf does not yet have comments in kernel doc format, see kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/kernel-doc.html for an example so you can test this. The advantage of this approach is to use the existing sphinx infrastructure that the kernel has, and have libbpf docs in the same place as everything else. The current plan is to have the libbpf mirror sync the generated docs and version them based on the libbpf releases which are cut on github. This patch includes the addition of libbpf_api.rst which pulls comment documentation from header files in libbpf under tools/lib/bpf/. The comment docs would be of the standard kernel doc format. Signed-off-by: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210618140459.9887-2-grantseltzer@gmail.com
2021-05-28bpf, docs: Add llvm_reloc.rst to explain llvm bpf relocationsYonghong Song1-0/+1
LLVM upstream commit https://reviews.llvm.org/D102712 made some changes to bpf relocations to make them llvm linker lld friendly. The scope of existing relocations R_BPF_64_{64,32} is narrowed and new relocations R_BPF_64_{ABS32,ABS64,NODYLD32} are introduced. Let us add some documentation about llvm bpf relocations so people can understand how to resolve them properly in their respective tools. Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210526152457.335210-1-yhs@fb.com
2021-03-05docs/bpf: Add bpf() syscall command referenceJoe Stringer1-3/+6
Generate the syscall command reference from the UAPI header file and include it in the main bpf docs page. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@cilium.io> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Quentin Monnet <quentin@isovalent.com> Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210302171947.2268128-15-joe@cilium.io
2020-08-25bpf: sk_lookup: Add user documentationJakub Sitnicki1-0/+1
Describe the purpose of BPF sk_lookup program, how it can be attached, when it gets invoked, and what information gets passed to it. Point the reader to examples and further documentation. Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200821100226.403844-1-jakub@cloudflare.com
2020-08-13doc: Add link to bpf helpers man pageJoe Stringer1-0/+7
The bpf-helpers(7) man pages provide an invaluable description of the functions that an eBPF program can call at runtime. Link them here. Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200813180807.2821735-1-joe@wand.net.nz
2020-08-06Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-nextLinus Torvalds1-6/+15
Pull networking updates from David Miller: 1) Support 6Ghz band in ath11k driver, from Rajkumar Manoharan. 2) Support UDP segmentation in code TSO code, from Eric Dumazet. 3) Allow flashing different flash images in cxgb4 driver, from Vishal Kulkarni. 4) Add drop frames counter and flow status to tc flower offloading, from Po Liu. 5) Support n-tuple filters in cxgb4, from Vishal Kulkarni. 6) Various new indirect call avoidance, from Eric Dumazet and Brian Vazquez. 7) Fix BPF verifier failures on 32-bit pointer arithmetic, from Yonghong Song. 8) Support querying and setting hardware address of a port function via devlink, use this in mlx5, from Parav Pandit. 9) Support hw ipsec offload on bonding slaves, from Jarod Wilson. 10) Switch qca8k driver over to phylink, from Jonathan McDowell. 11) In bpftool, show list of processes holding BPF FD references to maps, programs, links, and btf objects. From Andrii Nakryiko. 12) Several conversions over to generic power management, from Vaibhav Gupta. 13) Add support for SO_KEEPALIVE et al. to bpf_setsockopt(), from Dmitry Yakunin. 14) Various https url conversions, from Alexander A. Klimov. 15) Timestamping and PHC support for mscc PHY driver, from Antoine Tenart. 16) Support bpf iterating over tcp and udp sockets, from Yonghong Song. 17) Support 5GBASE-T i40e NICs, from Aleksandr Loktionov. 18) Add kTLS RX HW offload support to mlx5e, from Tariq Toukan. 19) Fix the ->ndo_start_xmit() return type to be netdev_tx_t in several drivers. From Luc Van Oostenryck. 20) XDP support for xen-netfront, from Denis Kirjanov. 21) Support receive buffer autotuning in MPTCP, from Florian Westphal. 22) Support EF100 chip in sfc driver, from Edward Cree. 23) Add XDP support to mvpp2 driver, from Matteo Croce. 24) Support MPTCP in sock_diag, from Paolo Abeni. 25) Commonize UDP tunnel offloading code by creating udp_tunnel_nic infrastructure, from Jakub Kicinski. 26) Several pci_ --> dma_ API conversions, from Christophe JAILLET. 27) Add FLOW_ACTION_POLICE support to mlxsw, from Ido Schimmel. 28) Add SK_LOOKUP bpf program type, from Jakub Sitnicki. 29) Refactor a lot of networking socket option handling code in order to avoid set_fs() calls, from Christoph Hellwig. 30) Add rfc4884 support to icmp code, from Willem de Bruijn. 31) Support TBF offload in dpaa2-eth driver, from Ioana Ciornei. 32) Support XDP_REDIRECT in qede driver, from Alexander Lobakin. 33) Support PCI relaxed ordering in mlx5 driver, from Aya Levin. 34) Support TCP syncookies in MPTCP, from Flowian Westphal. 35) Fix several tricky cases of PMTU handling wrt. briding, from Stefano Brivio. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (2056 commits) net: thunderx: initialize VF's mailbox mutex before first usage usb: hso: remove bogus check for EINPROGRESS usb: hso: no complaint about kmalloc failure hso: fix bailout in error case of probe ip_tunnel_core: Fix build for archs without _HAVE_ARCH_IPV6_CSUM selftests/net: relax cpu affinity requirement in msg_zerocopy test mptcp: be careful on subflow creation selftests: rtnetlink: make kci_test_encap() return sub-test result selftests: rtnetlink: correct the final return value for the test net: dsa: sja1105: use detected device id instead of DT one on mismatch tipc: set ub->ifindex for local ipv6 address ipv6: add ipv6_dev_find() net: openvswitch: silence suspicious RCU usage warning Revert "vxlan: fix tos value before xmit" ptp: only allow phase values lower than 1 period farsync: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API wan: wanxl: switch from 'pci_' to 'dma_' API hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down dpaa2-eth: Fix passing zero to 'PTR_ERR' warning net: macb: Properly handle phylink on at91sam9x ...
2020-07-31Documentation/bpf: Use valid and new links in index.rstTiezhu Yang1-6/+6
There exists an error "404 Not Found" when I click the html link of "Documentation/networking/filter.rst" in the BPF documentation [1], fix it. Additionally, use the new links about "BPF and XDP Reference Guide" and "bpf(2)" to avoid redirects. [1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/bpf/ Fixes: d9b9170a2653 ("docs: bpf: Rename README.rst to index.rst") Fixes: cb3f0d56e153 ("docs: networking: convert filter.txt to ReST") Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/1596184142-18476-1-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn
2020-07-26Documentation/bpf: Document CGROUP_STORAGE map typeYiFei Zhu1-0/+9
The machanics and usage are not very straightforward. Given the changes it's better to document how it works and how to use it, rather than having to rely on the examples and implementation to infer what is going on. Signed-off-by: YiFei Zhu <zhuyifei@google.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/b412edfbb05cb1077c9e2a36a981a54ee23fa8b3.1595565795.git.zhuyifei@google.com
2020-07-23docs: bpf/index.rst: Add ringbuf.rstDaniel W. S. Almeida1-0/+8
Fix the following warning Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst: WARNING: document isn't included in any toctree By adding it to the index. Signed-off-by: Daniel W. S. Almeida <dwlsalmeida@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200718165107.625847-10-dwlsalmeida@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-04-29docs: networking: convert filter.txt to ReSTMauro Carvalho Chehab1-2/+2
- add SPDX header; - adjust title markup; - mark code blocks and literals as such; - use footnote markup; - mark tables as such; - adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines; - add to networking/index.rst. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2020-03-30bpf: lsm: Add DocumentationKP Singh1-0/+1
Document how eBPF programs (BPF_PROG_TYPE_LSM) can be loaded and attached (BPF_LSM_MAC) to the LSM hooks. Signed-off-by: KP Singh <kpsingh@google.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Reviewed-by: Brendan Jackman <jackmanb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Florent Revest <revest@google.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Garnier <thgarnie@google.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jamorris@linux.microsoft.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200329004356.27286-9-kpsingh@chromium.org
2020-03-26bpf: Document bpf_inspect drgn toolAndrey Ignatov1-2/+3
It's a follow-up for discussion in [1]. drgn tool bpf_inspect.py was merged to drgn repo in [2]. Document it in kernel tree to make BPF developers aware that the tool exists and can help with getting BPF state unavailable via UAPI. For now it's just one tool but the doc is written in a way that allows to cover more tools in the future if needed. Please refer to the doc itself for more details. The patch was tested by `make htmldocs` and sanity-checking that resulting html looks good. v2 -> v3: - two sections: "Description" and "Getting started" (Daniel); - add examples in "Getting started" section (Daniel); - add "Customization" section to show how tool can be customized. v1 -> v2: - better "BPF drgn tools" section (Alexei) [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200228201514.GB51456@rdna-mbp/T/#mefed65e8a98116bd5d07d09a570a3eac46724951 [2] https://github.com/osandov/drgn/pull/49 Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200324185135.1431038-1-rdna@fb.com
2019-10-30bpf: Add s390 testing documentationIlya Leoshkevich1-0/+9
This commits adds a document that explains how to test BPF in an s390 QEMU guest. Signed-off-by: Ilya Leoshkevich <iii@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20191029172916.36528-1-iii@linux.ibm.com
2019-06-28bpf: add sockopt documentationStanislav Fomichev1-0/+1
Provide user documentation about sockopt prog type and cgroup hooks. v9: * add details about setsockopt context and inheritance v7: * add description for retval=0 and optlen=-1 v6: * describe cgroup chaining, add example v2: * use return code 2 for kernel bypass Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com> Cc: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2019-04-19bpf: move BPF_PROG_TYPE_FLOW_DISSECTOR documentation to a new common placeStanislav Fomichev1-0/+1
In commit da7031491786 ("bpf: Document BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SYSCTL") Andrey proposes to put per-prog type docs under Documentation/bpf/ Let's move flow dissector documentation there as well. Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2019-04-19bpf: Document BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SYSCTLAndrey Ignatov1-0/+9
Add documentation for BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SYSCTL, including general info, attach type, context, return code, helpers, example and usage considerations. A separate file prog_cgroup_sysctl.rst is added to Documentation/bpf/. In the future more program types can be documented in their own prog_<name>.rst files. Another way to place program type specific documentation would be to group program types somehow (e.g. cgroup.rst for all cgroup-bpf programs), but it may not scale well since some program types may belong to different groups, e.g. BPF_PROG_TYPE_CGROUP_SKB can be documented together with either cgroup-bpf programs or programs that access skb. The new file is added to the index and verified by `make htmldocs` / sanity-check by lynx. Signed-off-by: Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2019-01-23bpf: btf: add btf documentationYonghong Song1-0/+7
This patch added documentation for BTF (BPF Debug Format). The document is placed under linux:Documentation/bpf directory. Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2018-07-27docs: bpf: Capitalise document headingTobin C. Harding1-1/+1
The majority of files in the kernel documentation index use capitalisation for all words, especially the shorter ones. BPF docs better fit in with the rest of the documentation if the heading is all capitalised. Capitalise document heading. Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2018-07-27docs: bpf: Add toctree to indexTobin C. Harding1-4/+4
Recently bpf/ docs were converted to us RST format. bp/index.rst was created out of README but toctree was not added to include files within Documentation/bpf/ Add toctree to Documentation/bpf/index.rst Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
2018-07-27docs: bpf: Rename README.rst to index.rstTobin C. Harding1-0/+36
Recently bpf/ docs were converted to use RST format. 'README.rst' was created but in order to fit in with the Sphinx build system this file should be named 'index.rst'. Rename file, fixes to integrate into Sphinx build system in following patches. docs: Rename Documentation/bpf/README.rst to Documentation/bpf/index.rst Signed-off-by: Tobin C. Harding <me@tobin.cc> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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