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authorAndrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>2021-08-15 00:05:54 -0700
committerDaniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>2021-08-17 00:45:07 +0200
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bpf: Refactor BPF_PROG_RUN into a function
Turn BPF_PROG_RUN into a proper always inlined function. No functional and performance changes are intended, but it makes it much easier to understand what's going on with how BPF programs are actually get executed. It's more obvious what types and callbacks are expected. Also extra () around input parameters can be dropped, as well as `__` variable prefixes intended to avoid naming collisions, which makes the code simpler to read and write. This refactoring also highlighted one extra issue. BPF_PROG_RUN is both a macro and an enum value (BPF_PROG_RUN == BPF_PROG_TEST_RUN). Turning BPF_PROG_RUN into a function causes naming conflict compilation error. So rename BPF_PROG_RUN into lower-case bpf_prog_run(), similar to bpf_prog_run_xdp(), bpf_prog_run_pin_on_cpu(), etc. All existing callers of BPF_PROG_RUN, the macro, are switched to bpf_prog_run() explicitly. Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Acked-by: Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210815070609.987780-2-andrii@kernel.org
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.rst b/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
index 5f13905b12e082..ce2b8e8bb9ab64 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/filter.rst
@@ -638,8 +638,8 @@ extension, PTP dissector/classifier, and much more. They are all internally
converted by the kernel into the new instruction set representation and run
in the eBPF interpreter. For in-kernel handlers, this all works transparently
by using bpf_prog_create() for setting up the filter, resp.
-bpf_prog_destroy() for destroying it. The macro
-BPF_PROG_RUN(filter, ctx) transparently invokes eBPF interpreter or JITed
+bpf_prog_destroy() for destroying it. The function
+bpf_prog_run(filter, ctx) transparently invokes eBPF interpreter or JITed
code to run the filter. 'filter' is a pointer to struct bpf_prog that we
got from bpf_prog_create(), and 'ctx' the given context (e.g.
skb pointer). All constraints and restrictions from bpf_check_classic() apply