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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2022-08-02 10:39:13 -0700
committerAlexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>2022-08-04 13:17:24 -0700
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bpf: Update bpf_design_QA.rst to clarify that BTF_ID does not ABIify a function
This patch updates bpf_design_QA.rst to clarify that mentioning a function to the BTF_ID macro does not make that function become part of the Linux kernel's ABI. Suggested-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220802173913.4170192-3-paulmck@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst
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+++ b/Documentation/bpf/bpf_design_QA.rst
@@ -291,3 +291,10 @@ The kernel function prototypes will change, and BPF programs attaching to
them will need to change. The BPF compile-once-run-everywhere (CO-RE)
should be used in order to make it easier to adapt your BPF programs to
different versions of the kernel.
+
+Q: Marking a function with BTF_ID makes that function an ABI?
+-------------------------------------------------------------
+A: NO.
+
+The BTF_ID macro does not cause a function to become part of the ABI
+any more than does the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL macro.