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Daniel Borkmann 037776e4c6 Merge branch 'bpf-fix-broken-uapi-for-pt-regs'
Hendrik Brueckner says:

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Perf tool bpf selftests revealed a broken uapi for s390 and arm64.
With the BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type the bpf_perf_event
structure exports the pt_regs structure for all architectures.

This fails for s390 and arm64 because pt_regs are not part of the
user api and kept in-kernel only.  To mitigate the broken uapi,
introduce a wrapper that exports pt_regs in an asm-generic way.
For arm64, export the exising user_pt_regs structure.  For s390,
introduce a user_pt_regs structure that exports the beginning of
pt_regs.

Note that user_pt_regs must export from the beginning of pt_regs
as BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type is not the only type for
running BPF programs.

Some more background:

  For the bpf_perf_event, there is a uapi definition that is
  passed to the BPF program.  For other "probe" points like
  trace points, kprobes, and uprobes, there is no uapi and the
  BPF program is always passed pt_regs (which is OK as the BPF
  program runs in the kernel context).  The perf tool can attach
  BPF programs to all of these "probe" points and, optionally,
  can create a BPF prologue to access particular arguments
  (passed as registers).  For this, it uses DWARF/CFI
  information to obtain the register and calls a perf-arch
  backend function, regs_query_register_offset().  This function
  returns the index into (user_)pt_regs for a particular
  register.  Then, perf creates a BPF prologue that accesses
  this register based on the passed stucture from the "probe"
  point.

Part of this series, are also updates to the testing and bpf selftest
to deal with asm-specifics.  To complete the bpf support in perf, the
the regs_query_register_offset function is added for s390 to support
BPF prologue creation.

Changelog v1 -> v2:
- Correct kbuild test bot issues by including
  asm-generic/bpf_perf_event.h for archictectures that do not have
  their own asm version.
- Added patch to clean-up whitespace and coding style issues in s390
  asm/ptrace.h (#4/6) as suggested by Alexei.
====================

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
History 2017-12-05 15:02:42 +01:00
arch s390/uapi: correct whitespace & coding style in asm/ptrace.h 2017-12-05 15:02:41 +01:00
block Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-01 08:05:45 -05:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto Merge branch 'linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2017-11-28 16:22:10 -08:00
Documentation hwmon fixes for v4.15-rc2 2017-12-03 10:46:16 -05:00
drivers virtio,qemu: bugfixes 2017-12-04 11:32:02 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs NFS client fixes for Linux 4.15-rc2 2017-12-01 20:04:20 -05:00
include bpf: correct broken uapi for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type 2017-12-05 15:02:40 +01:00
init EXPERT Kconfig menu: fix broken EXPERT menu 2017-11-17 16:10:05 -08:00
ipc Rename superblock flags (MS_xyz -> SB_xyz) 2017-11-27 13:05:09 -08:00
kernel bpf: correct broken uapi for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type 2017-12-05 15:02:40 +01:00
lib RISC-V Cleanups and ABI Fixes for 4.15-rc2 2017-12-01 19:39:12 -05:00
mm Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-block 2017-12-01 08:05:45 -05:00
net Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-12-04 11:14:46 -08:00
samples Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf 2017-12-03 13:08:30 -05:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-11-29 19:12:44 -08:00
security bug fixes: 2017-11-30 18:56:41 -05:00
sound Revert "ALSA: usb-audio: Fix potential zero-division at parsing FU" 2017-11-28 09:34:36 -08:00
tools perf s390: add regs_query_register_offset() 2017-12-05 15:02:41 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt * x86 bugfixes: APIC, nested virtualization, IOAPIC 2017-11-30 08:15:19 -08:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild misc updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:51:33 -08:00
.mailmap Add Jason Gunthorpe as co-maintainer of the RDMA stack 2017-11-17 09:36:18 -08:00
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CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2017-12-04 11:14:46 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.15-rc2 2017-12-03 11:01:47 -05:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.