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Helper function bpf_timer_start

v5.15

This helper starts a timer.

Definition

Copyright (c) 2015 The Libbpf Authors. All rights reserved.

Set timer expiration N nanoseconds from the current time. The configured callback will be invoked in soft irq context on some cpu and will not repeat unless another bpf_timer_start() is made. In such case the next invocation can migrate to a different cpu. Since struct bpf_timer is a field inside map element the map owns the timer. The bpf_timer_set_callback() will increment refcnt of BPF program to make sure that callback_fn code stays valid. When user space reference to a map reaches zero all timers in a map are cancelled and corresponding program's refcnts are decremented. This is done to make sure that Ctrl-C of a user process doesn't leave any timers running. If map is pinned in bpffs the callback_fn can re-arm itself indefinitely. bpf_map_update/delete_elem() helpers and user space sys_bpf commands cancel and free the timer in the given map element. The map can contain timers that invoke callback_fn-s from different programs. The same callback_fn can serve different timers from different maps if key/value layout matches across maps. Every bpf_timer_set_callback() can have different callback_fn.

flags can be one of:

BPF_F_TIMER_ABS

    Start the timer in absolute expire value instead of the default relative one.

BPF_F_TIMER_CPU_PIN

    Timer will be pinned to the CPU of the caller.

    

Returns

0 on success. -EINVAL if timer was not initialized with bpf_timer_init() earlier or invalid flags are passed.

static long (* const bpf_timer_start)(struct bpf_timer *timer, __u64 nsecs, __u64 flags) = (void *) 171;

Usage

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Program types

This helper call can be used in the following program types:

Example

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