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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: bpf@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: corbet@lwn.net, ast@kernel.org, daniel@iogearbox.net,
	andrii@kernel.org, kafai@fb.com, songliubraving@fb.com,
	yhs@fb.com, john.fastabend@gmail.com, kpsingh@kernel.org,
	kernel-team@fb.com, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH v2 bpf 2/2] bpf: Update bpf_design_QA.rst to clarify that attaching to functions is not ABI
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 16:44:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220726234401.3425557-2-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220726234401.3425557-1-paulmck@kernel.org>

This patch updates bpf_design_QA.rst to clarify that the ability to
attach a BPF program to an arbitrary function in the kernel does not
make that function become part of the Linux kernel's ABI.

[ paulmck: Apply Daniel Borkmann feedback. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
 Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst
index 2ed9128cfbec8..a06ae8a828e3d 100644
--- a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst
+++ b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst
@@ -279,3 +279,15 @@ cc (congestion-control) implementations.  If any of these kernel
 functions has changed, both the in-tree and out-of-tree kernel tcp cc
 implementations have to be changed.  The same goes for the bpf
 programs and they have to be adjusted accordingly.
+
+Q: Attaching to arbitrary kernel functions is an ABI?
+-----------------------------------------------------
+Q: BPF programs can be attached to many kernel functions.  Do these
+kernel functions become part of the ABI?
+
+A: NO.
+
+The kernel function prototypes will change, and BPF programs attaching to
+them will need to change.  The BPF compile-once-run-everywhere (CO-RE)
+should be used in order to make it easier to adapt your BPF programs to
+different versions of the kernel.
-- 
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23


      reply	other threads:[~2022-07-26 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-22 18:06 [PATCH bpf 1/2] bpf: Update bpf_design_QA.rst to clarify that kprobes is not ABI Paul E. McKenney
2022-07-22 18:06 ` [PATCH bpf 2/2] bpf: Update bpf_design_QA.rst to clarify that attaching to functions " Paul E. McKenney
2022-07-22 20:17   ` Daniel Borkmann
2022-07-22 21:23     ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-07-25 12:15       ` Matthew Wilcox
2022-07-25 16:40         ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-08-02  5:34           ` Alexei Starovoitov
2022-08-02 17:42             ` Paul E. McKenney
2022-07-26 23:44       ` [PATCH v2 bpf 1/2] bpf: Update bpf_design_QA.rst to clarify that kprobes " Paul E. McKenney
2022-07-26 23:44         ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]

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