Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 1/7] bpf: add 'flags' attribute to BPF_MAP_UPDATE_ELEM command

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
<hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fr, 2014-11-14 at 07:33 -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 4:11 AM, Hannes Frederic Sowa
>> <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Do, 2014-11-13 at 17:36 -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> >> the current meaning of BPF_MAP_UPDATE_ELEM syscall command is:
>> >> either update existing map element or create a new one.
>> >> Initially the plan was to add a new command to handle the case of
>> >> 'create new element if it didn't exist', but 'flags' style looks
>> >> cleaner and overall diff is much smaller (more code reused), so add 'flags'
>> >> attribute to BPF_MAP_UPDATE_ELEM command with the following meaning:
>> >>  #define BPF_ANY      0 /* create new element or update existing */
>> >>  #define BPF_NOEXIST  1 /* create new element if it didn't exist */
>> >>  #define BPF_EXIST    2 /* update existing element */
>> >
>> > Would a cmpxchg-alike function be handy here?
>>
>> you mean cmpxchg command in addition to
>> update() command ?
>> May be... it will have an extra 'value' argument
>> (key, old_value, new_value)
>> I don't have a use case for it yet though.
>
> I don't neither. ;)
>
> I just wanted to bring this up before user space api might get public
> and the additional argument might make problems.

addition of cmpxchg command won't be a problem obviously.
(just another 'new_value' field in existing struct inside bpf_attr union).
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