From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from 69-171-232-181.mail-mxout.facebook.com (69-171-232-181.mail-mxout.facebook.com [69.171.232.181]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0A5063CBE77 for ; Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=69.171.232.181 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776915316; cv=none; b=ZqNUyJwj48ntPKI3q9JETcFhEAlFMyciJ7Gy1/3ZGZWyqi09AKMXOBC/g6ZB6ge/YgHnJnuinpUY4j3ErrzSbs26t0TPeeqpdQ0m/CyqJ9AukGeW4u3tfzvAdZhbY9lZqdGDNgduW7q0+QjgzLi/PcqHAjLwlV7KbTvxjq3/Law= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1776915316; c=relaxed/simple; bh=5YAAOv2TzmNrNkRlYrojAzXCjVJT3KK2SYM64kEXegM=; h=From:To:Cc:Subject:Date:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:References: MIME-Version; b=YlRfujStp1zOSTfIf5FgUOrr+sUOJTB0IO1v5pkkRcK4L0UmJYytOX9h4jzziH5FwotTu+/NnNbanpNn6RlGN4eHmSLhP41Wy8ZM605+4L6KPbJ/p2pBkZhRkzRr4XRnSDdVnnQ6mCxrX5Vle0MrLCQydOicnxnmsYRAzmTPCYQ= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev; arc=none smtp.client-ip=69.171.232.181 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=fail (p=none dis=none) header.from=linux.dev Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=fail smtp.mailfrom=linux.dev Received: by devvm16039.vll0.facebook.com (Postfix, from userid 128203) id BADC445844BF5; Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:35:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Yonghong Song To: bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: Alexei Starovoitov , Andrii Nakryiko , Daniel Borkmann , "Jose E . Marchesi" , kernel-team@fb.com, Martin KaFai Lau , Puranjay Mohan , Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v3 9/9] bpf: Reuse MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS for maximum number of arguments Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:35:11 -0700 Message-ID: <20260423033511.2542870-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.52.0 In-Reply-To: <20260423033425.2536883-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev> References: <20260423033425.2536883-1-yonghong.song@linux.dev> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: bpf@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Currently, MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS is used for tracepoint related progs where the number of parameters cannot exceed MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS. Here, MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS is reused to set a limit of the number of argumen= ts for bpf functions and kfuncs. The current value for MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS is 12 which should be sufficient for majority of bpf functions and kfuncs. Acked-by: Puranjay Mohan Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song --- include/linux/bpf.h | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h index d3aea3931b85..715b6df9c403 100644 --- a/include/linux/bpf.h +++ b/include/linux/bpf.h @@ -1151,6 +1151,11 @@ struct bpf_prog_offload { =20 /* The longest tracepoint has 12 args. * See include/trace/bpf_probe.h + * + * Also reuse this macro for maximum number of arguments a BPF function + * or a kfunc can have. Args 1-5 are passed in registers, args 6-12 via + * stack arg slots. The JIT may map some stack arg slots to registers ba= sed + * on the native calling convention (e.g., arg 6 to R9 on x86-64). */ #define MAX_BPF_FUNC_ARGS 12 =20 --=20 2.52.0