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author | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> | 2014-11-13 17:36:46 -0800 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2014-11-18 13:43:59 -0500 |
commit | 28fbcfa08d8ed7c5a50d41a0433aad222835e8e3 (patch) | |
tree | 1ef9417be1eb51e76456b3f2dbaf080c48883c32 /kernel/bpf/Makefile | |
parent | 0f8e4bd8a1fc8c4185f1630061d0a1f2d197a475 (diff) |
bpf: add array type of eBPF maps
add new map type BPF_MAP_TYPE_ARRAY and its implementation
- optimized for fastest possible lookup()
. in the future verifier/JIT may recognize lookup() with constant key
and optimize it into constant pointer. Can optimize non-constant
key into direct pointer arithmetic as well, since pointers and
value_size are constant for the life of the eBPF program.
In other words array_map_lookup_elem() may be 'inlined' by verifier/JIT
while preserving concurrent access to this map from user space
- two main use cases for array type:
. 'global' eBPF variables: array of 1 element with key=0 and value is a
collection of 'global' variables which programs can use to keep the state
between events
. aggregation of tracing events into fixed set of buckets
- all array elements pre-allocated and zero initialized at init time
- key as an index in array and can only be 4 byte
- map_delete_elem() returns EINVAL, since elements cannot be deleted
- map_update_elem() replaces elements in an non-atomic way
(for atomic updates hashtable type should be used instead)
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/bpf/Makefile')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/bpf/Makefile | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/bpf/Makefile b/kernel/bpf/Makefile index 2c0ec7f9da78..72ec98ba2d42 100644 --- a/kernel/bpf/Makefile +++ b/kernel/bpf/Makefile @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ obj-y := core.o -obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += syscall.o verifier.o hashtab.o +obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += syscall.o verifier.o hashtab.o arraymap.o ifdef CONFIG_TEST_BPF obj-$(CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL) += test_stub.o endif |