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From: Lorenz Bauer <lmb@cloudflare.com>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>, bpf <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	kernel-team <kernel-team@cloudflare.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 7/9] bpf: split get_id and fd_by_id in bpf_attr
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2021 15:01:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACAyw99sM0F8JpL-fcOqnCg2J99zhk45ASbzvxxgv+0x4ERKoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAADnVQJXmVFj_6O9eEAs_4FfdyZMhTab57v_=syR8RJWrdPLHA@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 27 Oct 2021 at 19:21, Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I could reduce this to just the three different variants, it opens us
> > up to another map_get_fd_by_id.
>
> yes, but even with all of them there is still a risk of repeating
> map_get_fd_by_id mistake.
> To make progress maybe let's land the bits that we agree on
> and keep brainstorming on the rest?

Sounds good to me, which parts are good to go from your side? I wanted
to join BPF office hours yesterday to discuss, but I got sidetracked.
I'll join next week instead.

> Or that's too little to be useful for automatic golang conversion?
> If the whole thing is needed then golang converting script
> should probably be part of the series otherwise things will bit rot.

Every little helps I would say. Good point on bit rot, does it make
sense to e.g. not allow new defines by default, etc.? We could hook it
into the Makefile of selftests/bpf or some such?

Lorenz
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-29 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-14 14:34 [RFC 0/9] uapi/bpf.h for robots Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 1/9] bpf: name enums used from userspace Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 2/9] bpf: various constants Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-14 14:43   ` Greg KH
2021-10-14 14:47     ` Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-14 14:56       ` Greg KH
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 3/9] bpf: move up __bpf_md_ptr Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 4/9] bpf: name __u64 member of __bpf_md_ptr Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 5/9] bpf: enum bpf_map_create_attr Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 5/9] bpf: introduce CHECK_ATTR_TAIL Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 6/9] bpf: split map modification structs Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-20 17:13   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 6/9] bpf: struct bpf_map_create_attr Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 7/9] bpf: split get_id and fd_by_id in bpf_attr Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-20 17:15   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-10-21 15:59     ` Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-27 18:20       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2021-10-29 14:01         ` Lorenz Bauer [this message]
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 7/9] bpf: split map modification structs Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 8/9] selftests: sync bpf.h Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-14 14:34 ` [RFC 9/9] libbpf: use new-style syscall args Lorenz Bauer
2021-10-20 17:19   ` Alexei Starovoitov

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