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| author | Leo Yan <leo.yan@linaro.org> | 2018-04-27 12:02:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> | 2018-04-27 12:08:13 +0200 |
| commit | 2c25fc9a503adef4279951382fc9d47b59977f59 (patch) | |
| tree | 074932b6ced2f62bc8df04454ab59fd456e8ded1 | |
| parent | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bpf/bpf-next (diff) | |
| download | linux-2c25fc9a503adef4279951382fc9d47b59977f59.tar.xz linux-2c25fc9a503adef4279951382fc9d47b59977f59.zip | |
bpf, doc: Update bpf_jit_enable limitation for CONFIG_BPF_JIT_ALWAYS_ON
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>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/filter.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt index fd55c7de9991..5032e1263bc9 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: |