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Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:26:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9552fc68c2d06c5dd88bb7494b4934e779bc45c6.camel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v3 5/9] selftests/bpf: Add kfunc __arena and __arena_nullable argument tests From: Eduard Zingerman To: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi , bpf@vger.kernel.org Cc: Tejun Heo , Alexei Starovoitov , Andrii Nakryiko , Daniel Borkmann , Emil Tsalapatis , kkd@meta.com, kernel-team@meta.com Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:26:07 -0700 In-Reply-To: <4d3b9137362fd9151ecdaf29d863a6cc0b0799d1.camel@gmail.com> References: <20260803125115.2264733-1-memxor@gmail.com> <20260803125115.2264733-6-memxor@gmail.com> <7f0d996cbfb2703450b9974d18c9f60ac2a3a959.camel@gmail.com> <4d3b9137362fd9151ecdaf29d863a6cc0b0799d1.camel@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable User-Agent: Evolution 3.56.2-10 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: bpf@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Tue, 2026-08-04 at 13:24 -0700, Eduard Zingerman wrote: > On Tue, 2026-08-04 at 22:14 +0200, Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi wrote: >=20 > ... >=20 > > > Which leads to several conclusions: > > > - We should reach a consensus regarding KF_ARENA* usage, as these > > > =C2=A0 kfuncs would clearly benefit from having __arena annotations o= n > > > =C2=A0 parameters (on the BPF side, on the host side these should be > > > =C2=A0 declared as plain pointers). > >=20 > > Yes, but even if we do, for the time begin, we won't have support for > > automatically emitting it until resolve_btfids changes are done. That s= aid, I > > can manually add the annotation for now. >=20 > We can fast-track resolve_btfids. >=20 > > > - In patch #1, it appears that there is no need to allow PTR_TO_ARENA > > > =C2=A0 for parameters passed to such a function. At-least I don't see= a C > > > =C2=A0 code not involving manual casts that would require such suppor= t. > >=20 > > This one I don't understand. Why wouldn't we get PTR_TO_ARENA typed par= amters as > > arguments? >=20 > `(u64 *)val` is translated as an address space cast instruction. > This instruction yields PTR_TO_ARENA. Except for explicit casts, > how else can you pass PTR_TO_ARENA to such a function? For example, `foo->ptr` yields a scalar from the verifier point of view. >=20 > ...