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From: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>,
	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
Subject: [PATCH bpf-next v2] bpf, doc: Update bpf_jit_enable limitation for CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 18:02:54 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1524823374-6174-1-git-send-email-leo.yan@linaro.org> (raw)

When CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON is enabled, kernel has limitation for
bpf_jit_enable, so it has fixed value 1 and we cannot set it to 2
for JIT opcode dumping; this patch is to update the doc for it.

Suggested-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org>
---
 Documentation/networking/filter.txt | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt
index fd55c7d..5032e12 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt
@@ -483,6 +483,12 @@ Example output from dmesg:
 [ 3389.935851] JIT code: 00000030: 00 e8 28 94 ff e0 83 f8 01 75 07 b8 ff ff 00 00
 [ 3389.935852] JIT code: 00000040: eb 02 31 c0 c9 c3
 
+When CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON is enabled, bpf_jit_enable is permanently set to 1 and
+setting any other value than that will return in failure. This is even the case for
+setting bpf_jit_enable to 2, since dumping the final JIT image into the kernel log
+is discouraged and introspection through bpftool (under tools/bpf/bpftool/) is the
+generally recommended approach instead.
+
 In the kernel source tree under tools/bpf/, there's bpf_jit_disasm for
 generating disassembly out of the kernel log's hexdump:
 
-- 
1.9.1

             reply	other threads:[~2018-04-27 10:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-27 10:02 Leo Yan [this message]
2018-04-27 10:10 ` [PATCH bpf-next v2] bpf, doc: Update bpf_jit_enable limitation for CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON Daniel Borkmann

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