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From: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>
To: Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Cc: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>,
	"bpf@vger.kernel.org" <bpf@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Kernel Team <Kernel-team@fb.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next 06/13] bpf: Introduce BPF_MAP_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2019 10:41:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEf4BzZDSaw18f3je0=+kG38F0+3G1zcB48T_He2H5LhJQ3ygg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191220165158.bc6mp7w5ooof262h@kafai-mbp>

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 8:52 AM Martin Lau <kafai@fb.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 11:22:17PM -0800, Martin Lau wrote:
>
> > [ ... ]
> >
> > > > +/* __bpf_##_name (e.g. __bpf_tcp_congestion_ops) is the map's value
> > > > + * exposed to the userspace and its btf-type-id is stored
> > > > + * at the map->btf_vmlinux_value_type_id.
> > > > + *
> > > > + * The *_name##_dummy is to ensure the BTF type is emitted.
> > > > + */
> > > > +
> > > >   #define BPF_STRUCT_OPS_TYPE(_name)                              \
> > > > -extern struct bpf_struct_ops bpf_##_name;
> > > > +extern struct bpf_struct_ops bpf_##_name;                        \
> > > > +                                                         \
> > > > +static struct __bpf_##_name {                                    \
> > > > + BPF_STRUCT_OPS_COMMON_VALUE;                            \
> > > > + struct _name data ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;         \
> > > > +} *_name##_dummy;
> > >
> > > There are other ways to retain types in debug info without
> > > creating new variables. For example, you can use it in a cast
> > > like
> > >      (void *)(struct __bpf_##_name *)v
> > hmm... What is v?
> Got it.  "v" could be any dummy pointer in a function.
> I will use (void) instead of (void *) to avoid compiler warning.
>

This discussion inspired me to try this:

#define PRESERVE_TYPE_INFO(type) ((void)(type *)0)

... somewhere in any function ...

PRESERVE_TYPE_INFO(struct whatever_struct);

And it works! We should probably put this helper macro somewhere in
include/linux/bpf.h and use it consistently for cases like this.

> >
> > > Not sure whether we could easily find a place for such casting or not.
> This can be done in bpf_struct_ops_init().
>
> Thanks for the tips!

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-20 18:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-14  0:47 [PATCH bpf-next 00/13] Introduce BPF STRUCT_OPS Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-14  0:47 ` [PATCH bpf-next 01/13] bpf: Save PTR_TO_BTF_ID register state when spilling to stack Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-16 19:48   ` Yonghong Song
2019-12-14  0:47 ` [PATCH bpf-next 02/13] bpf: Avoid storing modifier to info->btf_id Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-16 21:34   ` Yonghong Song
2019-12-14  0:47 ` [PATCH bpf-next 03/13] bpf: Add enum support to btf_ctx_access() Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-16 21:36   ` Yonghong Song
2019-12-14  0:47 ` [PATCH bpf-next 04/13] bpf: Support bitfield read access in btf_struct_access Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-16 22:05   ` Yonghong Song
2019-12-14  0:47 ` [PATCH bpf-next 05/13] bpf: Introduce BPF_PROG_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-17  6:14   ` Yonghong Song
2019-12-18 16:41     ` Martin Lau
2019-12-14  0:47 ` [PATCH bpf-next 06/13] bpf: Introduce BPF_MAP_TYPE_STRUCT_OPS Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-17  7:48   ` [Potential Spoof] " Yonghong Song
2019-12-20  7:22     ` Martin Lau
2019-12-20 16:52       ` Martin Lau
2019-12-20 18:41         ` Andrii Nakryiko [this message]
2019-12-14  0:47 ` [PATCH bpf-next 07/13] bpf: tcp: Support tcp_congestion_ops in bpf Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-17 17:36   ` Yonghong Song
2019-12-14  0:47 ` [PATCH bpf-next 08/13] bpf: Add BPF_FUNC_tcp_send_ack helper Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-17 17:41   ` Yonghong Song
2019-12-14  0:47 ` [PATCH bpf-next 09/13] bpf: Add BPF_FUNC_jiffies Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-14  1:59   ` Eric Dumazet
2019-12-14 19:25     ` Neal Cardwell
2019-12-16 19:30       ` Martin Lau
2019-12-17  8:26       ` Jakub Sitnicki
2019-12-17 18:22         ` Martin Lau
2019-12-17 21:04           ` Eric Dumazet
2019-12-18  9:03           ` Jakub Sitnicki
2019-12-16 19:14     ` Martin Lau
2019-12-16 19:33       ` Eric Dumazet
2019-12-16 21:17         ` Martin Lau
2019-12-16 23:08       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2019-12-17  0:34         ` Eric Dumazet
2019-12-14  0:48 ` [PATCH bpf-next 10/13] bpf: Synch uapi bpf.h to tools/ Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-14  0:48 ` [PATCH bpf-next 11/13] bpf: libbpf: Add STRUCT_OPS support Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-18  3:07   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-18  7:03     ` Martin Lau
2019-12-18  7:20       ` Martin Lau
2019-12-18 16:36         ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-18 16:34       ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-18 17:33         ` Martin Lau
2019-12-18 18:14           ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-18 20:19             ` Martin Lau
2019-12-19  8:53             ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-12-19 20:49               ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-20 10:16                 ` Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
2019-12-20 17:34                   ` Andrii Nakryiko
2019-12-14  0:48 ` [PATCH bpf-next 12/13] bpf: Add bpf_dctcp example Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-14  0:48 ` [PATCH bpf-next 13/13] bpf: Add bpf_cubic example Martin KaFai Lau
2019-12-14  2:26 ` [PATCH bpf-next 00/13] Introduce BPF STRUCT_OPS Eric Dumazet

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