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Andrii Nakryiko c359821ac6 libbpf: streamline low-level XDP APIs
Introduce 4 new netlink-based XDP APIs for attaching, detaching, and
querying XDP programs:
  - bpf_xdp_attach;
  - bpf_xdp_detach;
  - bpf_xdp_query;
  - bpf_xdp_query_id.

These APIs replace bpf_set_link_xdp_fd, bpf_set_link_xdp_fd_opts,
bpf_get_link_xdp_id, and bpf_get_link_xdp_info APIs ([0]). The latter
don't follow a consistent naming pattern and some of them use
non-extensible approaches (e.g., struct xdp_link_info which can't be
modified without breaking libbpf ABI).

The approach I took with these low-level XDP APIs is similar to what we
did with low-level TC APIs. There is a nice duality of bpf_tc_attach vs
bpf_xdp_attach, and so on. I left bpf_xdp_attach() to support detaching
when -1 is specified for prog_fd for generality and convenience, but
bpf_xdp_detach() is preferred due to clearer naming and associated
semantics. Both bpf_xdp_attach() and bpf_xdp_detach() accept the same
opts struct allowing to specify expected old_prog_fd.

While doing the refactoring, I noticed that old APIs require users to
specify opts with old_fd == -1 to declare "don't care about already
attached XDP prog fd" condition. Otherwise, FD 0 is assumed, which is
essentially never an intended behavior. So I made this behavior
consistent with other kernel and libbpf APIs, in which zero FD means "no
FD". This seems to be more in line with the latest thinking in BPF land
and should cause less user confusion, hopefully.

For querying, I left two APIs, both more generic bpf_xdp_query()
allowing to query multiple IDs and attach mode, but also
a specialization of it, bpf_xdp_query_id(), which returns only requested
prog_id. Uses of prog_id returning bpf_get_link_xdp_id() were so
prevalent across selftests and samples, that it seemed a very common use
case and using bpf_xdp_query() for doing it felt very cumbersome with
a highly branches if/else chain based on flags and attach mode.

Old APIs are scheduled for deprecation in libbpf 0.8 release.

  [0] Closes: https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/issues/309

Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220120061422.2710637-2-andrii@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2022-01-20 21:22:02 -08:00
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api tools api fs: Cache cgroupfs mount point 2021-02-17 15:09:08 -03:00
bpf libbpf: streamline low-level XDP APIs 2022-01-20 21:22:02 -08:00
perf Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core 2021-10-26 11:03:02 -03:00
subcmd libsubcmd: add OPT_UINTEGER_OPTARG option type 2021-08-31 15:44:05 -03:00
symbol libsymbols kallsyms: Move hex2u64 out of header 2020-05-05 16:35:32 -03:00
traceevent KVM: x86/mmu: Rename "nxe" role bit to "efer_nx" for macro shenanigans 2021-06-24 18:00:41 -04:00
argv_split.c tools lib: Move argv_{split,free} from tools/perf/util/ 2019-07-01 22:50:40 -03:00
bitmap.c tools lib: Adopt bitmap_intersects() operation from the kernel sources 2021-06-30 15:28:00 -03:00
ctype.c tools perf: Move from sane_ctype.h obtained from git to the Linux's original 2019-06-25 21:02:47 -03:00
find_bit.c tools: sync lib/find_bit implementation 2021-05-06 19:24:12 -07:00
hweight.c License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
list_sort.c tools lib: Adopt list_sort() from the kernel sources 2021-10-20 10:30:59 -03:00
rbtree.c tools/: replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones 2020-08-07 11:33:21 -07:00
str_error_r.c objtool, perf: Fix GCC 8 -Wrestrict error 2018-03-19 13:51:54 -03:00
string.c tools lib: Adopt memchr_inv() from kernel 2020-11-27 08:34:52 -03:00
vsprintf.c perf script: Pad DSO name for --call-trace 2019-05-28 18:37:44 -03:00
zalloc.c tools lib: Adopt zalloc()/zfree() from tools/perf 2019-07-09 10:13:26 -03:00