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Commit 5b7fe93d authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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Daniel Borkmann says:

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pull-request: bpf-next 2019-10-27

The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.

We've added 52 non-merge commits during the last 11 day(s) which contain
a total of 65 files changed, 2604 insertions(+), 1100 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

 1) Revolutionize BPF tracing by using in-kernel BTF to type check BPF
    assembly code. The work here teaches BPF verifier to recognize
    kfree_skb()'s first argument as 'struct sk_buff *' in tracepoints
    such that verifier allows direct use of bpf_skb_event_output() helper
    used in tc BPF et al (w/o probing memory access) that dumps skb data
    into perf ring buffer. Also add direct loads to probe memory in order
    to speed up/replace bpf_probe_read() calls, from Alexei Starovoitov.

 2) Big batch of changes to improve libbpf and BPF kselftests. Besides
    others: generalization of libbpf's CO-RE relocation suppor...
parents b9512485 027cbaaf
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