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Enable helpers to directly access a map element value by passing a
register type PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE (or PTR_TO_MAP_VALUE_ADJ) to helper
arguments ARG_PTR_TO_STACK or ARG_PTR_TO_RAW_STACK.
This enables several use cases. For example, a typical tracing program
might want to capture pathnames passed to sys_open() with:
struct trace_data {
char pathname[PATHLEN];
};
SEC("kprobe/sys_open")
void bpf_sys_open(struct pt_regs *ctx)
{
struct trace_data data;
bpf_probe_read(data.pathname, sizeof(data.pathname), ctx->di);
/* consume data.pathname, for example via
* bpf_trace_printk() or bpf_perf_event_output()
*/
}
Such a program could easily hit the stack limit in case PATHLEN needs to
be large or more local variables need to exist, both of which are quite
common scenarios. Allowing direct helper access to map element values,
one could do:
struct bpf_map_def SEC("maps") scratch_map = {
.type = BPF_MAP_TYPE_PERCPU_ARRAY,
.key_size = sizeof(u32),
.value_size = sizeof(struct trace_data),
.max_entries = 1,
};
SEC("kprobe/sys_open")
int bpf_sys_open(struct pt_regs *ctx)
{
int id = 0;
struct trace_data *p = bpf_map_lookup_elem(&scratch_map, &id);
if (!p)
return;
bpf_probe_read(p->pathname, sizeof(p->pathname), ctx->di);
/* consume p->pathname, for example via
* bpf_trace_printk() or bpf_perf_event_output()
*/
}
And wouldn't risk exhausting the stack.
Code changes are loosely modeled after commit
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.