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Hao Luo d639b9d13a bpf: Introduce composable reg, ret and arg types.
There are some common properties shared between bpf reg, ret and arg
values. For instance, a value may be a NULL pointer, or a pointer to
a read-only memory. Previously, to express these properties, enumeration
was used. For example, in order to test whether a reg value can be NULL,
reg_type_may_be_null() simply enumerates all types that are possibly
NULL. The problem of this approach is that it's not scalable and causes
a lot of duplication. These properties can be combined, for example, a
type could be either MAYBE_NULL or RDONLY, or both.

This patch series rewrites the layout of reg_type, arg_type and
ret_type, so that common properties can be extracted and represented as
composable flag. For example, one can write

 ARG_PTR_TO_MEM | PTR_MAYBE_NULL

which is equivalent to the previous

 ARG_PTR_TO_MEM_OR_NULL

The type ARG_PTR_TO_MEM are called "base type" in this patch. Base
types can be extended with flags. A flag occupies the higher bits while
base types sits in the lower bits.

This patch in particular sets up a set of macro for this purpose. The
following patches will rewrite arg_types, ret_types and reg_types
respectively.

Signed-off-by: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211217003152.48334-2-haoluo@google.com
2021-12-18 12:46:40 -08:00
arch add includes masked by cgroup -> bpf dependency 2021-12-16 14:57:09 -08:00
block Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2021-12-08 16:06:44 -08:00
certs certs: Add support for using elliptic curve keys for signing modules 2021-08-23 19:55:42 +03:00
crypto Update to zstd-1.4.10 2021-11-13 15:32:30 -08:00
Documentation Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2021-12-10 15:56:13 -08:00
drivers xsk: Wipe out dead zero_copy_allocator declarations 2021-12-14 00:24:24 +01:00
fs net: add netns refcount tracker to struct seq_net_private 2021-12-10 06:38:26 -08:00
include bpf: Introduce composable reg, ret and arg types. 2021-12-18 12:46:40 -08:00
init kbuild: Fix -Wimplicit-fallthrough=5 error for GCC 5.x and 6.x 2021-11-14 18:59:49 -08:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-11-20 10:35:54 -08:00
kernel Only output backtracking information in log level 2 2021-12-16 19:44:34 -08:00
lib Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2021-12-10 15:56:13 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES/dual/CC-BY-4.0: Git rid of "smart quotes" 2021-07-15 06:31:24 -06:00
mm Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2021-12-08 16:06:44 -08:00
net add missing bpf-cgroup.h includes 2021-12-16 14:57:09 -08:00
samples samples/bpf: Stop using bpf_object__find_program_by_title API. 2021-12-14 14:38:05 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hid/hid 2021-11-24 09:44:13 -08:00
security add missing bpf-cgroup.h includes 2021-12-16 14:57:09 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 5.16-rc4 2021-12-01 10:07:39 -08:00
tools bpftool: Reimplement large insn size limit feature probing 2021-12-17 23:11:13 +01:00
usr initramfs: Check timestamp to prevent broken cpio archive 2021-10-24 13:48:40 +09:00
virt KVM: downgrade two BUG_ONs to WARN_ON_ONCE 2021-11-26 06:43:28 -05:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with the latest for_each macro list 2021-05-12 23:32:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: use 'dts' diff driver for dts files 2019-12-04 19:44:11 -08:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore only top-level modules.builtin 2021-05-02 00:43:35 +09:00
.mailmap MAINTAINERS: update email address of Christian Borntraeger 2021-11-18 17:50:54 +01:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Move Daniel Drake to credits 2021-09-21 08:34:58 +03:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next 2021-12-10 15:56:13 -08:00
Makefile Makefile: Do not quote value for CONFIG_CC_IMPLICIT_FALLTHROUGH 2021-12-06 16:42:47 -08:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

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