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Commit 2d141236 authored by Alexei Starovoitov's avatar Alexei Starovoitov
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Merge branch 'Document some recent core kfunc additions'

David Vernet says:

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A series of recent patch sets introduced kfuncs that allowed struct
task_struct and struct cgroup objects to be used as kptrs. These were
introduced in [0], [1], and [2].

[0]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221120051004.3605026-1-void@manifault.com/
[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221122145300.251210-2-void@manifault.com/T/
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221122055458.173143-1-void@manifault.com/

These are "core" kfuncs, in that they may be used by a wide variety of
possible BPF tracepoint or struct_ops programs, and are defined in
kernel/bpf/helpers.c. Even though as kfuncs they have no ABI stability
guarantees, they should still be properly documented. This patch set
adds that documentation.

Some other kfuncs were added recently as well, such as
bpf_rcu_read_lock() and bpf_rcu_read_unlock(). Those could and should be
added to this "Core kfuncs" section as well in subsequent patch sets.

Note that this patch set does not contain documentation for
bpf_task_acquire_not_zero(), or bpf_task_kptr_get(). As discussed in
[3], those kfuncs currently always return NULL pending resolution on how
to properly protect their arguments using RCU.

[3]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20221206210538.597606-1-void@manifault.com/


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Changelog:
v2 -> v3:
- Don't document bpf_task_kptr_get(), and instead provide a more
  substantive example for bpf_cgroup_kptr_get().
- Further clarify expected behavior of bpf_task_from_pid() in comments
  (Alexei)

v1 -> v2:
- Expand comment to specify that a map holds a reference to a task kptr
  if we don't end up releasing it (Alexei)
- Just read task->pid instead of using a probed read (Alexei)
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Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
parents 26c386ec 36aa10ff
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