On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
<acme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Em Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 01:24:15PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
>> Em Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 08:06:09PM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov escreveu:
>> > diff --git a/samples/bpf/tracex1_kern.c b/samples/bpf/tracex1_kern.c
>> > new file mode 100644
>> > index 000000000000..7849ceb4bce6
>> > --- /dev/null
>> > +++ b/samples/bpf/tracex1_kern.c
>> > @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
>> > +#include <linux/skbuff.h>
>> > +#include <linux/netdevice.h>
>> > +#include <uapi/linux/bpf.h>
>> > +#include <trace/bpf_trace.h>
>> > +#include "bpf_helpers.h"
>> > +
>> > +SEC("events/net/netif_receive_skb")
>> > +int bpf_prog1(struct bpf_context *ctx)
>> > +{
>> > + /*
>> > + * attaches to /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/net/netif_receive_skb
>> > + * prints events for loobpack device only
>> > + */
>> > + char devname[] = "lo";
>> > + struct net_device *dev;
>> > + struct sk_buff *skb = 0;
>> > +
>> > + skb = (struct sk_buff *) ctx->arg1;
>> > + dev = bpf_fetch_ptr(&skb->dev);
>> > + if (bpf_memcmp(dev->name, devname, 2) == 0)
>>
>> I'm only starting to look at all this, so bear with me... But why do we
>> need to have it as "bpf_memcmp"? Can't we simply use it as "memcmp" and
>> have it use the right function?
>>
>> Less typing, perhaps we would need to have a:
>>
>> #define memcmp bpf_memcmp(s1, s2, n) bpf_memcmp(s1, s2, n)
>
> Argh, like this:
>
> #define memcmp(s1, s2, n) bpf_memcmp(s1, s2, n)
>
>> in bpf_helpers.h to have it work?
yes, that will work just fine.
Since it's an example I made it explicit that bpf_memcmp()
has memcmp() semantics, but little bit different:
int bpf_memcmp(void *unsafe_ptr, void *safe_ptr, int size)
meaning that one of the pointers can point anywhere and
the function will be doing probe_kernel_read() underneath
similar to bpf_fetch_*() helpers.
If it was plain memcmp() it would give a wrong impression
that vanilla memcmp() can be used.
In general the programs cannot use any library functions
outside of helpers defined in uapi/linux/bpf.h
bpf_fetch_*() helpers are also explicit in examples.
If one need to do a lot of pointer walking, then macro like
#define D(P) ((typeof(P))bpf_fetch_ptr(&P))
would be easier to use: p = D(D(skb->dev)->ifalias)
multiple pointer derefs would look more natural...
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