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author | Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com> | 2017-03-22 10:00:33 -0700 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-03-22 15:45:45 -0700 |
commit | 56f668dfe00dcf086734f1c42ea999398fad6572 (patch) | |
tree | d233ae9458347dccd529e8be12e24d73bcb13617 /include/uapi/linux | |
parent | fad73a1a35ea61f13607a391aca669caad8c04ca (diff) |
bpf: Add array of maps support
This patch adds a few helper funcs to enable map-in-map
support (i.e. outer_map->inner_map). The first outer_map type
BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY_OF_MAPS is also added in this patch.
The next patch will introduce a hash of maps type.
Any bpf map type can be acted as an inner_map. The exception
is BPF_MAP_TYPE_PROG_ARRAY because the extra level of
indirection makes it harder to verify the owner_prog_type
and owner_jited.
Multi-level map-in-map is not supported (i.e. map->map is ok
but not map->map->map).
When adding an inner_map to an outer_map, it currently checks the
map_type, key_size, value_size, map_flags, max_entries and ops.
The verifier also uses those map's properties to do static analysis.
map_flags is needed because we need to ensure BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT
is using a preallocated hashtab for the inner_hash also. ops and
max_entries are needed to generate inlined map-lookup instructions.
For simplicity reason, a simple '==' test is used for both map_flags
and max_entries. The equality of ops is implied by the equality of
map_type.
During outer_map creation time, an inner_map_fd is needed to create an
outer_map. However, the inner_map_fd's life time does not depend on the
outer_map. The inner_map_fd is merely used to initialize
the inner_map_meta of the outer_map.
Also, for the outer_map:
* It allows element update and delete from syscall
* It allows element lookup from bpf_prog
The above is similar to the current fd_array pattern.
Signed-off-by: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/uapi/linux')
-rw-r--r-- | include/uapi/linux/bpf.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h index 0539a0ceef38..1701ec1e7de3 100644 --- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h +++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h @@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ enum bpf_map_type { BPF_MAP_TYPE_LRU_HASH, BPF_MAP_TYPE_LRU_PERCPU_HASH, BPF_MAP_TYPE_LPM_TRIE, + BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY_OF_MAPS, }; enum bpf_prog_type { @@ -152,6 +153,7 @@ union bpf_attr { __u32 value_size; /* size of value in bytes */ __u32 max_entries; /* max number of entries in a map */ __u32 map_flags; /* prealloc or not */ + __u32 inner_map_fd; /* fd pointing to the inner map */ }; struct { /* anonymous struct used by BPF_MAP_*_ELEM commands */ |