Re: pull-request: bpf-next 2021-09-17

On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:37:38 -0700 Alexei Starovoitov wrote:

Hi David, hi Jakub,

The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.

We've added 63 non-merge commits during the last 12 day(s) which contain
a total of 65 files changed, 2653 insertions(+), 751 deletions(-).

The main changes are:

1) Streamline internal BPF program sections handling and
   bpf_program__set_attach_target() in libbpf, from Andrii.

2) Add support for new btf kind BTF_KIND_TAG, from Yonghong.

3) Introduce bpf_get_branch_snapshot() to capture LBR, from Song.

4) IMUL optimization for x86-64 JIT, from Jie.

5) xsk selftest improvements, from Magnus.

6) Introduce legacy kprobe events support in libbpf, from Rafael.

7) Access hw timestamp through BPF's __sk_buff, from Vadim.

Pulled, thanks!


Hi Konstantin, I was meaning to ask for a while - what are the rules on
the patchwork bot sending its automatic notifications? I noticed that it
will notify (again) when we fast-forward the trees after Linus pulls,
but when we merge bpf into net it never sends anything.