Re: [PATCH v4 bpf-next 0/5] BPF ring buffer

On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 12:54:19AM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:

Implement a new BPF ring buffer, as presented at BPF virtual conference ([0]).
It presents an alternative to perf buffer, following its semantics closely,
but allowing sharing same instance of ring buffer across multiple CPUs
efficiently.

Most patches have extensive commentary explaining various aspects, so I'll
keep cover letter short. Overall structure of the patch set:
- patch #1 adds BPF ring buffer implementation to kernel and necessary
  verifier support;
- patch #2 adds libbpf consumer implementation for BPF ringbuf;
- patch #3 adds selftest, both for single BPF ring buf use case, as well as
  using it with array/hash of maps;
- patch #4 adds extensive benchmarks and provide some analysis in commit
  message, it builds upon selftests/bpf's bench runner.
- patch #5 adds most of patch #1 commit message as a doc under
  Documentation/bpf/ringbuf.rst.

Litmus tests, validating consumer/producer protocols and memory orderings,
were moved out as discussed in [1] and are going to be posted against -rcu
tree and put under Documentation/litmus-tests/bpf-rb.

  [0] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18ITdg77Bj6YDOH2LghxrnFxiPWe0fAqcmJY95t_qr0w
  [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/22/1011

v3->v4:
- fix ringbuf freeing (vunmap, __free_page); verified with a trivial loop
  creating and closing ringbuf map endlessly (Daniel);

Applied, thanks!