Commit 1ac6b126 authored by Stanislav Fomichev's avatar Stanislav Fomichev Committed by Alexei Starovoitov
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bpf/flow_dissector: document flags



Describe what each input flag does and who uses it.

Acked-by: default avatarPetar Penkov <ppenkov@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWillem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSong Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Song Liu <songliubraving@fb.com>
Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
Cc: Petar Penkov <ppenkov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarStanislav Fomichev <sdf@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ The inputs are:
  * ``nhoff`` - initial offset of the networking header
  * ``thoff`` - initial offset of the transport header, initialized to nhoff
  * ``n_proto`` - L3 protocol type, parsed out of L2 header
  * ``flags`` - optional flags

Flow dissector BPF program should fill out the rest of the ``struct
bpf_flow_keys`` fields. Input arguments ``nhoff/thoff/n_proto`` should be
@@ -101,6 +102,23 @@ can be called for both cases and would have to be written carefully to
handle both cases.


Flags
=====

``flow_keys->flags`` might contain optional input flags that work as follows:

* ``BPF_FLOW_DISSECTOR_F_PARSE_1ST_FRAG`` - tells BPF flow dissector to
  continue parsing first fragment; the default expected behavior is that
  flow dissector returns as soon as it finds out that the packet is fragmented;
  used by ``eth_get_headlen`` to estimate length of all headers for GRO.
* ``BPF_FLOW_DISSECTOR_F_STOP_AT_FLOW_LABEL`` - tells BPF flow dissector to
  stop parsing as soon as it reaches IPv6 flow label; used by
  ``___skb_get_hash`` and ``__skb_get_hash_symmetric`` to get flow hash.
* ``BPF_FLOW_DISSECTOR_F_STOP_AT_ENCAP`` - tells BPF flow dissector to stop
  parsing as soon as it reaches encapsulated headers; used by routing
  infrastructure.


Reference Implementation
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