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| author | Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> | 2026-09-30 09:59:20 +0000 |
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| committer | Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> | 2026-10-01 18:40:05 +0200 |
| commit | aeb709c767aeca996e6011133e4f7bdb2a4af652 (patch) | |
| tree | c1c2bdbb4b6b7174a5bbe9e4c2c1f1c0204adcb5 /tools/include/uapi/README | |
| download | linux-stable-aeb709c767aeca996e6011133e4f7bdb2a4af652.tar.gz linux-stable-aeb709c767aeca996e6011133e4f7bdb2a4af652.zip | |
selftests/bpf: Add a test for objects stuck in free_by_rcu_ttracegrafted
Delete all elements of BPF_F_NO_PREALLOC hash map in one batch. The first
free_bulk() starts RCU tasks trace GP and the rest of the elements are
freed while it's in flight. Wait for call_rcu_ttrace_in_progress to clear
in bpf_mem_cache of every cpu and check that free_by_rcu_ttrace and
waiting_for_gp_ttrace lists are empty.
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20260930095920.601738-4-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/include/uapi/README')
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1 files changed, 73 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/README b/tools/include/uapi/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..7147b1b2c --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/include/uapi/README @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +Why we want a copy of kernel headers in tools? +============================================== + +There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers +directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel +hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we +adopted the current model. + +The way these headers are used in perf are not restricted to just +including them to compile something. + +There are sometimes used in scripts that convert defines into string +tables, etc, so some change may break one of these scripts, or new MSRs +may use some different #define pattern, etc. + +E.g.: + + $ ls -1 tools/perf/trace/beauty/*.sh | head -5 + tools/perf/trace/beauty/arch_errno_names.sh + tools/perf/trace/beauty/drm_ioctl.sh + tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh + tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsconfig.sh + tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsmount.sh + $ + $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh + static const char *fadvise_advices[] = { + [0] = "NORMAL", + [1] = "RANDOM", + [2] = "SEQUENTIAL", + [3] = "WILLNEED", + [4] = "DONTNEED", + [5] = "NOREUSE", + }; + $ + +The tools/perf/check-headers.sh script, part of the tools/ build +process, points out changes in the original files. + +So its important not to touch the copies in tools/ when doing changes in +the original kernel headers, that will be done later, when +check-headers.sh inform about the change to the perf tools hackers. + +Another explanation from Ingo Molnar: +It's better than all the alternatives we tried so far: + + - Symbolic links and direct #includes: this was the original approach but + was pushed back on from the kernel side, when tooling modified the + headers and broke them accidentally for kernel builds. + + - Duplicate self-defined ABI headers like glibc: double the maintenance + burden, double the chance for mistakes, plus there's no tech-driven + notification mechanism to look at new kernel side changes. + +What we are doing now is a third option: + + - A software-enforced copy-on-write mechanism of kernel headers to + tooling, driven by non-fatal warnings on the tooling side build when + kernel headers get modified: + + Warning: Kernel ABI header differences: + diff -u tools/include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h include/uapi/drm/i915_drm.h + diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/fs.h include/uapi/linux/fs.h + diff -u tools/include/uapi/linux/kvm.h include/uapi/linux/kvm.h + ... + + The tooling policy is to always pick up the kernel side headers as-is, + and integate them into the tooling build. The warnings above serve as a + notification to tooling maintainers that there's changes on the kernel + side. + +We've been using this for many years now, and it might seem hacky, but +works surprisingly well. + |
