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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-11-25 20:02:57 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-11-25 20:02:57 -0800
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Another merge window, another pull full of stuff: 1) Support alternative names for network devices, from Jiri Pirko. 2) Introduce per-netns netdev notifiers, also from Jiri Pirko. 3) Support MSG_PEEK in vsock/virtio, from Matias Ezequiel Vara Larsen. 4) Allow compiling out the TLS TOE code, from Jakub Kicinski. 5) Add several new tracepoints to the kTLS code, also from Jakub. 6) Support set channels ethtool callback in ena driver, from Sameeh Jubran. 7) New SCTP events SCTP_ADDR_ADDED, SCTP_ADDR_REMOVED, SCTP_ADDR_MADE_PRIM, and SCTP_SEND_FAILED_EVENT. From Xin Long. 8) Add XDP support to mvneta driver, from Lorenzo Bianconi. 9) Lots of netfilter hw offload fixes, cleanups and enhancements, from Pablo Neira Ayuso. 10) PTP support for aquantia chips, from Egor Pomozov. 11) Add UDP segmentation offload support to igb, ixgbe, and i40e. From Josh Hunt. 12) Add smart nagle to tipc, from Jon Maloy. 13) Support L2 field rewrite by TC offloads in bnxt_en, from Venkat Duvvuru. 14) Add a flow mask cache to OVS, from Tonghao Zhang. 15) Add XDP support to ice driver, from Maciej Fijalkowski. 16) Add AF_XDP support to ice driver, from Krzysztof Kazimierczak. 17) Support UDP GSO offload in atlantic driver, from Igor Russkikh. 18) Support it in stmmac driver too, from Jose Abreu. 19) Support TIPC encryption and auth, from Tuong Lien. 20) Introduce BPF trampolines, from Alexei Starovoitov. 21) Make page_pool API more numa friendly, from Saeed Mahameed. 22) Introduce route hints to ipv4 and ipv6, from Paolo Abeni. 23) Add UDP segmentation offload to cxgb4, Rahul Lakkireddy" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next: (1857 commits) libbpf: Fix usage of u32 in userspace code mm: Implement no-MMU variant of vmalloc_user_node_flags slip: Fix use-after-free Read in slip_open net: dsa: sja1105: fix sja1105_parse_rgmii_delays() macvlan: schedule bc_work even if error enetc: add support Credit Based Shaper(CBS) for hardware offload net: phy: add helpers phy_(un)lock_mdio_bus mdio_bus: don't use managed reset-controller ax88179_178a: add ethtool_op_get_ts_info() mlxsw: spectrum_router: Fix use of uninitialized adjacency index mlxsw: spectrum_router: After underlay moves, demote conflicting tunnels bpf: Simplify __bpf_arch_text_poke poke type handling bpf: Introduce BPF_TRACE_x helper for the tracing tests bpf: Add bpf_jit_blinding_enabled for !CONFIG_BPF_JIT bpf, testing: Add various tail call test cases bpf, x86: Emit patchable direct jump as tail call bpf: Constant map key tracking for prog array pokes bpf: Add poke dependency tracking for prog array maps bpf: Add initial poke descriptor table for jit images bpf: Move owner type, jited info into array auxiliary data ...
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@@ -14,6 +14,20 @@ Compiling requires having installed:
Note that LLVM's tool 'llc' must support target 'bpf', list version
and supported targets with command: ``llc --version``
+Clean and configuration
+-----------------------
+
+It can be needed to clean tools, samples or kernel before trying new arch or
+after some changes (on demand)::
+
+ make -C tools clean
+ make -C samples/bpf clean
+ make clean
+
+Configure kernel, defconfig for instance::
+
+ make defconfig
+
Kernel headers
--------------
@@ -32,12 +46,10 @@ Compiling
For building the BPF samples, issue the below command from the kernel
top level directory::
- make samples/bpf/
-
-Do notice the "/" slash after the directory name.
+ make M=samples/bpf
It is also possible to call make from this directory. This will just
-hide the the invocation of make as above with the appended "/".
+hide the invocation of make as above.
Manually compiling LLVM with 'bpf' support
------------------------------------------
@@ -63,14 +75,31 @@ Quick sniplet for manually compiling LLVM and clang
It is also possible to point make to the newly compiled 'llc' or
'clang' command via redefining LLC or CLANG on the make command line::
- make samples/bpf/ LLC=~/git/llvm/build/bin/llc CLANG=~/git/llvm/build/bin/clang
+ make M=samples/bpf LLC=~/git/llvm/build/bin/llc CLANG=~/git/llvm/build/bin/clang
Cross compiling samples
-----------------------
In order to cross-compile, say for arm64 targets, export CROSS_COMPILE and ARCH
-environment variables before calling make. This will direct make to build
-samples for the cross target.
+environment variables before calling make. But do this before clean,
+cofiguration and header install steps described above. This will direct make to
+build samples for the cross target::
+
+ export ARCH=arm64
+ export CROSS_COMPILE="aarch64-linux-gnu-"
+
+Headers can be also installed on RFS of target board if need to keep them in
+sync (not necessarily and it creates a local "usr/include" directory also)::
+
+ make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=~/some_sysroot/usr headers_install
+
+Pointing LLC and CLANG is not necessarily if it's installed on HOST and have
+in its targets appropriate arm64 arch (usually it has several arches).
+Build samples::
+
+ make M=samples/bpf
+
+Or build samples with SYSROOT if some header or library is absent in toolchain,
+say libelf, providing address to file system containing headers and libs,
+can be RFS of target board::
-export ARCH=arm64
-export CROSS_COMPILE="aarch64-linux-gnu-"
-make samples/bpf/ LLC=~/git/llvm/build/bin/llc CLANG=~/git/llvm/build/bin/clang
+ make M=samples/bpf SYSROOT=~/some_sysroot