On 02/07/2025 18.57, Song Yoong Siang wrote:
Introduce the XDP_METADATA_SIZE macro as a conservative measure to accommodate any metadata areas reserved by Ethernet devices.
This seems like a sloppy workaround :-(
To me, the problem arise because AF_XDP is lacking the ability to communicate the size of the data_meta area. If we had this capability, then we could allow the IGC driver to take some of the space, have the BPF-prog expand it futher (bpf_xdp_adjust_meta) and then userspace AF_XDP would simply be able to see the size of the data_meta area, and apply the struct xdp_meta at right offset.
Signed-off-by: Song Yoong Siang yoong.siang.song@intel.com
tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_metadata.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_hw_metadata.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_metadata.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c | 2 +- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_metadata.h | 7 +++++++ 5 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_metadata.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_metadata.c index 19f92affc2da..8d6c2633698b 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_metadata.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_metadata.c @@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ static int verify_xsk_metadata(struct xsk *xsk, bool sent_from_af_xdp) /* custom metadata */
- meta = data - sizeof(struct xdp_meta);
- meta = data - XDP_METADATA_SIZE;
if (!ASSERT_NEQ(meta->rx_timestamp, 0, "rx_timestamp")) return -1; diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_hw_metadata.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_hw_metadata.c index 330ece2eabdb..3766f58d3486 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_hw_metadata.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_hw_metadata.c @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ int rx(struct xdp_md *ctx) return XDP_PASS; }
- err = bpf_xdp_adjust_meta(ctx, -(int)sizeof(struct xdp_meta));
- err = bpf_xdp_adjust_meta(ctx, -(int)XDP_METADATA_SIZE); if (err) { __sync_add_and_fetch(&pkts_fail, 1); return XDP_PASS;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_metadata.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_metadata.c index 09bb8a038d52..5cada85fe0f4 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_metadata.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_metadata.c @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ int rx(struct xdp_md *ctx) /* Reserve enough for all custom metadata. */
- ret = bpf_xdp_adjust_meta(ctx, -(int)sizeof(struct xdp_meta));
- ret = bpf_xdp_adjust_meta(ctx, -(int)XDP_METADATA_SIZE); if (ret != 0) return XDP_DROP;
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c index 3d8de0d4c96a..a529d55d4ff4 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static void verify_xdp_metadata(void *data, clockid_t clock_id) { struct xdp_meta *meta;
- meta = data - sizeof(*meta);
- meta = data - XDP_METADATA_SIZE;
if (meta->hint_valid & XDP_META_FIELD_RSS) printf("rx_hash: 0x%X with RSS type:0x%X\n", diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_metadata.h b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_metadata.h index 87318ad1117a..2dfd3bf5e7bb 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_metadata.h +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_metadata.h @@ -50,3 +50,10 @@ struct xdp_meta { }; enum xdp_meta_field hint_valid; };
+/* XDP_METADATA_SIZE must be at least the size of struct xdp_meta. An additional
- 32 bytes of padding is included as a conservative measure to accommodate any
- metadata areas reserved by Ethernet devices. If the device-reserved metadata
- exceeds 32 bytes, this value will need adjustment.
- */
+#define XDP_METADATA_SIZE (sizeof(struct xdp_meta) + 32)