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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-02-24 08:39:55 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2020-02-24 08:39:55 +0100
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Merge 5.6-rc3 into tty-next
We want the tty fixes in here as well. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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diff --git a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
index f1d74a2bd234..22f235260a3a 100644
--- a/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
+++ b/tools/include/uapi/linux/bpf.h
@@ -1045,9 +1045,9 @@ union bpf_attr {
* supports redirection to the egress interface, and accepts no
* flag at all.
*
- * The same effect can be attained with the more generic
- * **bpf_redirect_map**\ (), which requires specific maps to be
- * used but offers better performance.
+ * The same effect can also be attained with the more generic
+ * **bpf_redirect_map**\ (), which uses a BPF map to store the
+ * redirect target instead of providing it directly to the helper.
* Return
* For XDP, the helper returns **XDP_REDIRECT** on success or
* **XDP_ABORTED** on error. For other program types, the values
@@ -1611,13 +1611,11 @@ union bpf_attr {
* the caller. Any higher bits in the *flags* argument must be
* unset.
*
- * When used to redirect packets to net devices, this helper
- * provides a high performance increase over **bpf_redirect**\ ().
- * This is due to various implementation details of the underlying
- * mechanisms, one of which is the fact that **bpf_redirect_map**\
- * () tries to send packet as a "bulk" to the device.
+ * See also bpf_redirect(), which only supports redirecting to an
+ * ifindex, but doesn't require a map to do so.
* Return
- * **XDP_REDIRECT** on success, or **XDP_ABORTED** on error.
+ * **XDP_REDIRECT** on success, or the value of the two lower bits
+ * of the **flags* argument on error.
*
* int bpf_sk_redirect_map(struct sk_buff *skb, struct bpf_map *map, u32 key, u64 flags)
* Description