bpf: introduce BPF syscall and maps

BPF syscall is a multiplexor for a range of different operations on eBPF.
This patch introduces syscall with single command to create a map.
Next patch adds commands to access maps.

'maps' is a generic storage of different types for sharing data between kernel
and userspace.

Userspace example:
/* this syscall wrapper creates a map with given type and attributes
 * and returns map_fd on success.
 * use close(map_fd) to delete the map
 */
int bpf_create_map(enum bpf_map_type map_type, int key_size,
                   int value_size, int max_entries)
{
    union bpf_attr attr = {
        .map_type = map_type,
        .key_size = key_size,
        .value_size = value_size,
        .max_entries = max_entries
    };

    return bpf(BPF_MAP_CREATE, &attr, sizeof(attr));
}

'union bpf_attr' is backwards compatible with future extensions.

More details in Documentation/networking/filter.txt and in manpage

Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 41 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/bpf.h b/include/linux/bpf.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..48014a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/bpf.h
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+/* Copyright (c) 2011-2014 PLUMgrid, http://plumgrid.com
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public
+ * License as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ */
+#ifndef _LINUX_BPF_H
+#define _LINUX_BPF_H 1
+
+#include <uapi/linux/bpf.h>
+#include <linux/workqueue.h>
+
+struct bpf_map;
+
+/* map is generic key/value storage optionally accesible by eBPF programs */
+struct bpf_map_ops {
+	/* funcs callable from userspace (via syscall) */
+	struct bpf_map *(*map_alloc)(union bpf_attr *attr);
+	void (*map_free)(struct bpf_map *);
+};
+
+struct bpf_map {
+	atomic_t refcnt;
+	enum bpf_map_type map_type;
+	u32 key_size;
+	u32 value_size;
+	u32 max_entries;
+	struct bpf_map_ops *ops;
+	struct work_struct work;
+};
+
+struct bpf_map_type_list {
+	struct list_head list_node;
+	struct bpf_map_ops *ops;
+	enum bpf_map_type type;
+};
+
+void bpf_register_map_type(struct bpf_map_type_list *tl);
+void bpf_map_put(struct bpf_map *map);
+
+#endif /* _LINUX_BPF_H */