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KFunc bpf_cpumask_create

v6.3

Create a mutable BPF CPU-mask.

Definition

Allocates a CPU-mask that can be queried, mutated, acquired, and released by a BPF program. The CPU-mask returned by this function must either be embedded in a map as a kptr, or freed with bpf_cpumask_release().

bpf_cpumask_create() allocates memory using the BPF memory allocator, and will not block. It may return NULL if no memory is available.

struct bpf_cpumask *bpf_cpumask_create()

Note

This kfunc returns a pointer to a refcounted object. The verifier will then ensure that the pointer to the object is eventually released using a release kfunc, or transferred to a map using a referenced kptr (by invoking bpf_kptr_xchg). If not, the verifier fails the loading of the BPF program until no lingering references remain in all possible explored states of the program.

Note

The pointer returned by the kfunc may be NULL. Hence, it forces the user to do a NULL check on the pointer returned from the kfunc before making use of it (dereferencing or passing to another helper).

Usage

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Program types

The following program types can make use of this kfunc:

Example

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