From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED0F4C38145 for ; Tue, 6 Sep 2022 20:05:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231192AbiIFUF0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2022 16:05:26 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:42820 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S231166AbiIFUE4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Sep 2022 16:04:56 -0400 Received: from linux.microsoft.com (linux.microsoft.com [13.77.154.182]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B18CCB5E79; Tue, 6 Sep 2022 13:00:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pwmachine.numericable.fr (85-170-34-72.rev.numericable.fr [85.170.34.72]) by linux.microsoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 36F4E204A062; Tue, 6 Sep 2022 12:58:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 linux.microsoft.com 36F4E204A062 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=linux.microsoft.com; s=default; t=1662494339; bh=uFGRrOq/51NXIcdfjbdqGyuEN8JjUWMtBLgpVH9tTbM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=s0ip9PP/e7tNFhTzW5Qi5hmgISsGF5ZqFozbagJLd9QyP2nb8fQwXdiRQ3lp6yhyo SYD9DSLv8MQk1PstZ+J+YXCj5NpaCpaBeetft2N5Pr3g5S/kp4+m2LBnYNKboOS+bO C7/FC7B8CQ4ZEjDDb3eC26nfWjqax71Es0yYlFR8= From: Francis Laniel To: bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: Francis Laniel , Alexei Starovoitov , Daniel Borkmann , Andrii Nakryiko , Martin KaFai Lau , Song Liu , Yonghong Song , John Fastabend , KP Singh , Stanislav Fomichev , Hao Luo , Jiri Olsa , Jonathan Corbet , Mykola Lysenko , Shuah Khan , Joanne Koong , Dave Marchevsky , Lorenzo Bianconi , Maxim Mikityanskiy , Geliang Tang , "Naveen N. Rao" , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org Subject: [RFC PATCH v2 3/5] docs/bpf: Add documentation for overwritable ring buffer. Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2022 21:56:44 +0200 Message-Id: <20220906195656.33021-4-flaniel@linux.microsoft.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 In-Reply-To: <20220906195656.33021-1-flaniel@linux.microsoft.com> References: <20220906195656.33021-1-flaniel@linux.microsoft.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Add documentation to precise behavior of overwritable BPF ring buffer compared to conventionnal ones. Signed-off-by: Francis Laniel --- Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst b/Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst index 6a615cd62bda..e062381ff604 100644 --- a/Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst +++ b/Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ buffer. Currently 4 are supported: - ``BPF_RB_AVAIL_DATA`` returns amount of unconsumed data in ring buffer; - ``BPF_RB_RING_SIZE`` returns the size of ring buffer; -- ``BPF_RB_CONS_POS``/``BPF_RB_PROD_POS`` returns current logical possition +- ``BPF_RB_CONS_POS``/``BPF_RB_PROD_POS`` returns current logical position of consumer/producer, respectively. Returned values are momentarily snapshots of ring buffer state and could be @@ -204,3 +204,19 @@ buffer. For extreme cases, when BPF program wants more manual control of notifications, commit/discard/output helpers accept ``BPF_RB_NO_WAKEUP`` and ``BPF_RB_FORCE_WAKEUP`` flags, which give full control over notifications of data availability, but require extra caution and diligence in using this API. + +Specific case of overwritable ring buffer +----------------------------------------- + +Using ``BFP_F_RB_OVERWRITABLE`` when creating the ring buffer will make it +overwritable. +As a consequence, the producers will never be stopped from writing data, *i.e.* +in this mode ``bpf_ringbuf_reserve()`` never blocks and returns NULL, but oldest +events will be replaced by newest ones. + +In terms of implementation, this feature uses the same logic than overwritable +perf ring buffer. +The ring buffer is written backward, while it should be read forward from the +producer position. +As a consequence, in this mode, the consumer position has no meaning and can be +used freely by userspace implementation. -- 2.25.1