Hello:
This series was applied to bpf/bpf-next.git (refs/heads/master):
On Wed, 14 Jul 2021 17:54:06 -0700 you wrote:
> From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> The first request to support timers in bpf was made in 2013 before sys_bpf syscall
> was added. That use case was periodic sampling. It was address with attaching
> bpf programs to perf_events. Then during XDP development the timers were requested
> to do garbage collection and health checks. They were worked around by implementing
> timers in user space and triggering progs with BPF_PROG_RUN command.
> The user space timers and perf_event+bpf timers are not armed by the bpf program.
> They're done asynchronously vs program execution. The XDP program cannot send a
> packet and arm the timer at the same time. The tracing prog cannot record an
> event and arm the timer right away. This large class of use cases remained
> unaddressed. The jiffy based and hrtimer based timers are essential part of the
> kernel development and with this patch set the hrtimer based timers will be
> available to bpf programs.
>
> [...]
Here is the summary with links:
- [v7,bpf-next,01/11] bpf: Prepare bpf_prog_put() to be called from irq context.
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/d809e134be7a
- [v7,bpf-next,02/11] bpf: Factor out bpf_spin_lock into helpers.
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/c1b3fed319d3
- [v7,bpf-next,03/11] bpf: Introduce bpf timers.
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/b00628b1c7d5
- [v7,bpf-next,04/11] bpf: Add map side support for bpf timers.
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/68134668c17f
- [v7,bpf-next,05/11] bpf: Prevent pointer mismatch in bpf_timer_init.
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/3e8ce29850f1
- [v7,bpf-next,06/11] bpf: Remember BTF of inner maps.
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/40ec00abf1cc
- [v7,bpf-next,07/11] bpf: Relax verifier recursion check.
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/86fc6ee6e246
- [v7,bpf-next,08/11] bpf: Implement verifier support for validation of async callbacks.
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/bfc6bb74e4f1
- [v7,bpf-next,09/11] bpf: Teach stack depth check about async callbacks.
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/7ddc80a476c2
- [v7,bpf-next,10/11] selftests/bpf: Add bpf_timer test.
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/3540f7c6b96a
- [v7,bpf-next,11/11] selftests/bpf: Add a test with bpf_timer in inner map.
https://git.kernel.org/bpf/bpf-next/c/61f71e746c72
You are awesome, thank you!
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