Re: [PATCH 1/5] bpf: correct broken uapi for BPF_PROG_TYPE_PERF_EVENT program type

From: Hendrik Brueckner
Date: Mon Dec 04 2017 - 03:34:55 EST


Hi Alexei,

On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 09:51:10AM -0800, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 01, 2017 at 03:19:04PM +0100, Hendrik Brueckner wrote:
> > --- a/include/uapi/linux/bpf_perf_event.h
> > +++ b/include/uapi/linux/bpf_perf_event.h
> > @@ -8,11 +8,10 @@
> > #ifndef _UAPI__LINUX_BPF_PERF_EVENT_H__
> > #define _UAPI__LINUX_BPF_PERF_EVENT_H__
> >
> > -#include <linux/types.h>
> > -#include <linux/ptrace.h>
> > +#include <asm/bpf_perf_event.h>
> >
> > struct bpf_perf_event_data {
> > - struct pt_regs regs;
> > + bpf_user_pt_regs_t regs;
> > __u64 sample_period;
> > };
>
> Thank you for working on this problem.
> The fix looks great to me.

Thank you.

> While applying it I noticed few nits:
> Applying: selftests/bpf: sync kernel headers and introduce arch support in Makefile
> /w/bpf/.git/rebase-apply/patch:253: trailing whitespace.
> freg_t fprs[NUM_FPRS];
> /w/bpf/.git/rebase-apply/patch:262: trailing whitespace.
> typedef struct
> /w/bpf/.git/rebase-apply/patch:439: trailing whitespace.
> } lowcore;
> /w/bpf/.git/rebase-apply/patch:490: trailing whitespace.
> } ptprot_area;
> warning: 4 lines add whitespace errors.
>
> Could you please fix those and resubmit ?

Sure will do. For that I have to add a clean-up patch for the s390 ptrace.h
uapi header.

> With that fixed feel free to add my
> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx>
> to the patches.

Thank you very much, will do!

> I've tested it on arm64 and don't see any issues.

I got a nice message from the build bot, I have some more work on that.
So will respin the series, add you Acked-by, and sent a v2 around.

> When resubmitting could you please reduce cc-list, since this set
> went into spam folder for me and I noticed it only in patchworks.

Will do... I just used what get_maintainers.pl told me :)