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From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 tip 3/8] tracing: allow BPF programs to call bpf_ktime_get_ns()
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2015 08:38:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <550AED5D.3010700@plumgrid.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150319111124.38f53061@gandalf.local.home>

On 3/19/15 8:11 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Mar 2015 14:49:39 -0700
> Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com> wrote:
>
>> bpf_ktime_get_ns() is used by programs to compue time delta between events
>
>   "compute"

ok :)

>> +	[BPF_FUNC_ktime_get_ns] = {
>> +		.func = bpf_ktime_get_ns,
>> +		.gpl_only = true,
>> +		.ret_type = RET_INTEGER,
>
> Hmm, a nanosecond value returned as integer? Is there a way to make
> this a 64 bit return type, or is RET_INTEGER default to 64 bits in BPF
> functions?

RET_INTEGER doesn't mean C 'int' width. It means non-pointer and
non-void value. The return value is always promoted to full
register width which is 64-bit.



  reply	other threads:[~2015-03-19 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-16 21:49 [PATCH v7 tip 0/8] tracing: attach eBPF programs to kprobes Alexei Starovoitov
2015-03-16 21:49 ` [PATCH v7 tip 1/8] bpf: make internal bpf API independent of CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL ifdefs Alexei Starovoitov
2015-03-16 21:49 ` [PATCH v7 tip 2/8] tracing: attach BPF programs to kprobes Alexei Starovoitov
2015-03-19 15:07   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-19 15:33     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-03-20  8:35   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2015-03-16 21:49 ` [PATCH v7 tip 3/8] tracing: allow BPF programs to call bpf_ktime_get_ns() Alexei Starovoitov
2015-03-19 15:11   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-19 15:38     ` Alexei Starovoitov [this message]
2015-03-19 15:41       ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-16 21:49 ` [PATCH v7 tip 4/8] tracing: allow BPF programs to call bpf_trace_printk() Alexei Starovoitov
2015-03-19 15:29   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-19 15:51     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-03-16 21:49 ` [PATCH v7 tip 5/8] samples: bpf: simple non-portable kprobe filter example Alexei Starovoitov
2015-03-19 15:50   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-03-19 15:53     ` Alexei Starovoitov
2015-03-16 21:49 ` [PATCH v7 tip 6/8] samples: bpf: counting example for kfree_skb and write syscall Alexei Starovoitov
2015-03-16 21:49 ` [PATCH v7 tip 7/8] samples: bpf: IO latency analysis (iosnoop/heatmap) Alexei Starovoitov
2015-03-16 21:49 ` [PATCH v7 tip 8/8] samples: bpf: kmem_alloc/free tracker Alexei Starovoitov

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