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From: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>,
	David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org, ast@kernel.org, andrii@kernel.org,
	martin.lau@linux.dev, song@kernel.org, yhs@meta.com,
	john.fastabend@gmail.com, kpsingh@kernel.org, sdf@google.com,
	haoluo@google.com, jolsa@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
	memxor@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH bpf-next v2 3/3] bpf: Use BPF_KFUNC macro at all kfunc definitions
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:00:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o7qphspq.fsf@meer.lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ebff2166-8a70-af62-b859-6b5c6b008b36@iogearbox.net>

Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> writes:

> Did you look into making this similar to the EXPORT_SYMBOL() infra? If possible
> that would look much more natural to developers, e.g. :
>
> struct nf_conn *
> bpf_skb_ct_lookup(struct __sk_buff *skb_ctx, struct bpf_sock_tuple *bpf_tuple,
>   		  u32 tuple__sz, struct bpf_ct_opts *opts, u32 opts__sz)
> {
> 	[...]
> }
>
> EXPORT_BPF_KFUNC(bpf_skb_ct_lookup);

That was my question too; it's a similar functionality that would be
nice to express in a similar way.  Even better, if possible, might be to
fold it into BTF_ID_FLAGS, which I might then rename to EXPORT_KFUNC()
or some such ... :)

Thanks,

jon

  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-23 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-23 17:15 [PATCH bpf-next v2 0/3] Add BPF_KFUNC macro for kfunc definitions David Vernet
2023-01-23 17:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 1/3] bpf: Add BPF_KFUNC macro for defining kfuncs David Vernet
2023-01-23 17:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 2/3] bpf: Document usage of the new BPF_KFUNC macro David Vernet
2023-01-23 17:15 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2 3/3] bpf: Use BPF_KFUNC macro at all kfunc definitions David Vernet
2023-01-23 18:33   ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-01-23 18:48     ` David Vernet
2023-01-23 18:54       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-01-23 19:01         ` David Vernet
2023-01-23 19:04         ` Daniel Borkmann
2023-01-23 21:00           ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2023-01-24  0:54             ` David Vernet
2023-01-24 14:50               ` Jonathan Corbet
2023-01-24 16:20                 ` David Vernet
2023-01-31 15:15                   ` Alan Maguire
2023-01-31 15:44                     ` David Vernet
2023-01-31 17:30                       ` Alexei Starovoitov
2023-01-23 19:01   ` kernel test robot
2023-01-23 19:12   ` kernel test robot
2023-01-24  7:15   ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-01-24 14:15     ` David Vernet

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