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This adds comments above functions in libbpf.h which document
their uses. These comments are of a format that doxygen and sphinx
can pick up and render. These are rendered by libbpf.readthedocs.org

These doc comments are for:
- bpf_object__find_map_by_name()
- bpf_map__fd()
- bpf_map__is_internal()
- libbpf_get_error()
- libbpf_num_possible_cpus()

Signed-off-by: Grant Seltzer <grantseltzer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210918031457.36204-1-grantseltzer@gmail.com
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Grant Seltzer authored and Andrii Nakryiko committed Sep 21, 2021
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Expand Up @@ -481,9 +481,13 @@ struct bpf_map_def {
unsigned int map_flags;
};

/*
* The 'struct bpf_map' in include/linux/bpf.h is internal to the kernel,
* so no need to worry about a name clash.
/**
* @brief **bpf_object__find_map_by_name()** returns BPF map of
* the given name, if it exists within the passed BPF object
* @param obj BPF object
* @param name name of the BPF map
* @return BPF map instance, if such map exists within the BPF object;
* or NULL otherwise.
*/
LIBBPF_API struct bpf_map *
bpf_object__find_map_by_name(const struct bpf_object *obj, const char *name);
Expand All @@ -509,7 +513,12 @@ bpf_map__next(const struct bpf_map *map, const struct bpf_object *obj);
LIBBPF_API struct bpf_map *
bpf_map__prev(const struct bpf_map *map, const struct bpf_object *obj);

/* get/set map FD */
/**
* @brief **bpf_map__fd()** gets the file descriptor of the passed
* BPF map
* @param map the BPF map instance
* @return the file descriptor; or -EINVAL in case of an error
*/
LIBBPF_API int bpf_map__fd(const struct bpf_map *map);
LIBBPF_API int bpf_map__reuse_fd(struct bpf_map *map, int fd);
/* get map definition */
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -550,6 +559,14 @@ LIBBPF_API int bpf_map__set_initial_value(struct bpf_map *map,
const void *data, size_t size);
LIBBPF_API const void *bpf_map__initial_value(struct bpf_map *map, size_t *psize);
LIBBPF_API bool bpf_map__is_offload_neutral(const struct bpf_map *map);

/**
* @brief **bpf_map__is_internal()** tells the caller whether or not the
* passed map is a special map created by libbpf automatically for things like
* global variables, __ksym externs, Kconfig values, etc
* @param map the bpf_map
* @return true, if the map is an internal map; false, otherwise
*/
LIBBPF_API bool bpf_map__is_internal(const struct bpf_map *map);
LIBBPF_API int bpf_map__set_pin_path(struct bpf_map *map, const char *path);
LIBBPF_API const char *bpf_map__get_pin_path(const struct bpf_map *map);
Expand All @@ -561,6 +578,38 @@ LIBBPF_API int bpf_map__unpin(struct bpf_map *map, const char *path);
LIBBPF_API int bpf_map__set_inner_map_fd(struct bpf_map *map, int fd);
LIBBPF_API struct bpf_map *bpf_map__inner_map(struct bpf_map *map);

/**
* @brief **libbpf_get_error()** extracts the error code from the passed
* pointer
* @param ptr pointer returned from libbpf API function
* @return error code; or 0 if no error occured
*
* Many libbpf API functions which return pointers have logic to encode error
* codes as pointers, and do not return NULL. Meaning **libbpf_get_error()**
* should be used on the return value from these functions immediately after
* calling the API function, with no intervening calls that could clobber the
* `errno` variable. Consult the individual functions documentation to verify
* if this logic applies should be used.
*
* For these API functions, if `libbpf_set_strict_mode(LIBBPF_STRICT_CLEAN_PTRS)`
* is enabled, NULL is returned on error instead.
*
* If ptr is NULL, then errno should be already set by the failing
* API, because libbpf never returns NULL on success and it now always
* sets errno on error.
*
* Example usage:
*
* struct perf_buffer *pb;
*
* pb = perf_buffer__new(bpf_map__fd(obj->maps.events), PERF_BUFFER_PAGES, &opts);
* err = libbpf_get_error(pb);
* if (err) {
* pb = NULL;
* fprintf(stderr, "failed to open perf buffer: %d\n", err);
* goto cleanup;
* }
*/
LIBBPF_API long libbpf_get_error(const void *ptr);

struct bpf_prog_load_attr {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -825,9 +874,10 @@ bpf_program__bpil_addr_to_offs(struct bpf_prog_info_linear *info_linear);
LIBBPF_API void
bpf_program__bpil_offs_to_addr(struct bpf_prog_info_linear *info_linear);

/*
* A helper function to get the number of possible CPUs before looking up
* per-CPU maps. Negative errno is returned on failure.
/**
* @brief **libbpf_num_possible_cpus()** is a helper function to get the
* number of possible CPUs that the host kernel supports and expects.
* @return number of possible CPUs; or error code on failure
*
* Example usage:
*
Expand All @@ -837,7 +887,6 @@ bpf_program__bpil_offs_to_addr(struct bpf_prog_info_linear *info_linear);
* }
* long values[ncpus];
* bpf_map_lookup_elem(per_cpu_map_fd, key, values);
*
*/
LIBBPF_API int libbpf_num_possible_cpus(void);

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