bpf: introduce BPF syscall and maps

BPF syscall is a multiplexor for a range of different operations on eBPF.
This patch introduces syscall with single command to create a map.
Next patch adds commands to access maps.

'maps' is a generic storage of different types for sharing data between kernel
and userspace.

Userspace example:
/* this syscall wrapper creates a map with given type and attributes
 * and returns map_fd on success.
 * use close(map_fd) to delete the map
 */
int bpf_create_map(enum bpf_map_type map_type, int key_size,
                   int value_size, int max_entries)
{
    union bpf_attr attr = {
        .map_type = map_type,
        .key_size = key_size,
        .value_size = value_size,
        .max_entries = max_entries
    };

    return bpf(BPF_MAP_CREATE, &attr, sizeof(attr));
}

'union bpf_attr' is backwards compatible with future extensions.

More details in Documentation/networking/filter.txt and in manpage

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Alexei Starovoitov
2014-09-26 00:16:57 -07:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 4a8e320c92
commit 99c55f7d47
5 changed files with 273 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -62,4 +62,27 @@ struct bpf_insn {
__s32 imm; /* signed immediate constant */
};
/* BPF syscall commands */
enum bpf_cmd {
/* create a map with given type and attributes
* fd = bpf(BPF_MAP_CREATE, union bpf_attr *, u32 size)
* returns fd or negative error
* map is deleted when fd is closed
*/
BPF_MAP_CREATE,
};
enum bpf_map_type {
BPF_MAP_TYPE_UNSPEC,
};
union bpf_attr {
struct { /* anonymous struct used by BPF_MAP_CREATE command */
__u32 map_type; /* one of enum bpf_map_type */
__u32 key_size; /* size of key in bytes */
__u32 value_size; /* size of value in bytes */
__u32 max_entries; /* max number of entries in a map */
};
} __attribute__((aligned(8)));
#endif /* _UAPI__LINUX_BPF_H__ */