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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-03-09 18:07:05 -0800 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-03-09 18:07:05 -0800 |
| commit | c1acda9807e2bbe1d2026b44f37d959d6d8266c8 (patch) | |
| tree | 6af2137ad95c0303f9b59d11fe7866e8ebfbcd07 /Documentation/userspace-api | |
| parent | 05a59d79793d482f628a31753c671f2e92178a21 (diff) | |
| parent | 32f91529e2bdbe0d92edb3ced41dfba4beffa84a (diff) | |
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next
Alexei Starovoitov says:
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pull-request: bpf-next 2021-03-09
The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.
We've added 90 non-merge commits during the last 17 day(s) which contain
a total of 114 files changed, 5158 insertions(+), 1288 deletions(-).
The main changes are:
1) Faster bpf_redirect_map(), from Björn.
2) skmsg cleanup, from Cong.
3) Support for floating point types in BTF, from Ilya.
4) Documentation for sys_bpf commands, from Joe.
5) Support for sk_lookup in bpf_prog_test_run, form Lorenz.
6) Enable task local storage for tracing programs, from Song.
7) bpf_for_each_map_elem() helper, from Yonghong.
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/userspace-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst | 24 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst | 1 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..473dfba78116 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +eBPF Userspace API +================== + +eBPF is a kernel mechanism to provide a sandboxed runtime environment in the +Linux kernel for runtime extension and instrumentation without changing kernel +source code or loading kernel modules. eBPF programs can be attached to various +kernel subsystems, including networking, tracing and Linux security modules +(LSM). + +For internal kernel documentation on eBPF, see Documentation/bpf/index.rst. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + syscall diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ea9918084221 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/ebpf/syscall.rst @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 + +eBPF Syscall +------------ + +:Authors: - Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> + - Joe Stringer <joe@wand.net.nz> + - Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> + +The primary info for the bpf syscall is available in the `man-pages`_ +for `bpf(2)`_. + +bpf() subcommand reference +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/bpf.h + :doc: eBPF Syscall Preamble + +.. kernel-doc:: include/uapi/linux/bpf.h + :doc: eBPF Syscall Commands + +.. Links: +.. _man-pages: https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ +.. _bpf(2): https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/bpf.2.html diff --git a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst index d29b020e5622..1e2438b7afa0 100644 --- a/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/userspace-api/index.rst @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ place where this information is gathered. unshare spec_ctrl accelerators/ocxl + ebpf/index ioctl/index iommu media/index |