tools/include/linux/filter.h
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/tools/include/linux/filter.h
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
tools/include/linux/filter.h- Extension
.h- Size
- 10040 bytes
- Lines
- 370
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- tools
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: implementation source
- Status
- source implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Uses kernel synchronization; read lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt context assumptions before translating.
- Defines or uses C structs; map object ownership, embedded links, reference counts, and lock ownership.
Dependency Surface
linux/bpf.h
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
#ifndef __TOOLS_LINUX_FILTER_H
#define __TOOLS_LINUX_FILTER_H
#include <linux/bpf.h>
/* ArgX, context and stack frame pointer register positions. Note,
* Arg1, Arg2, Arg3, etc are used as argument mappings of function
* calls in BPF_CALL instruction.
*/
#define BPF_REG_ARG1 BPF_REG_1
#define BPF_REG_ARG2 BPF_REG_2
#define BPF_REG_ARG3 BPF_REG_3
#define BPF_REG_ARG4 BPF_REG_4
#define BPF_REG_ARG5 BPF_REG_5
#define BPF_REG_CTX BPF_REG_6
#define BPF_REG_FP BPF_REG_10
/* Additional register mappings for converted user programs. */
#define BPF_REG_A BPF_REG_0
#define BPF_REG_X BPF_REG_7
#define BPF_REG_TMP BPF_REG_8
/* BPF program can access up to 512 bytes of stack space. */
#define MAX_BPF_STACK 512
/* Helper macros for filter block array initializers. */
/* ALU ops on registers, bpf_add|sub|...: dst_reg += src_reg */
#define BPF_ALU64_REG(OP, DST, SRC) \
((struct bpf_insn) { \
.code = BPF_ALU64 | BPF_OP(OP) | BPF_X, \
.dst_reg = DST, \
.src_reg = SRC, \
.off = 0, \
.imm = 0 })
#define BPF_ALU32_REG(OP, DST, SRC) \
((struct bpf_insn) { \
.code = BPF_ALU | BPF_OP(OP) | BPF_X, \
.dst_reg = DST, \
.src_reg = SRC, \
.off = 0, \
.imm = 0 })
/* ALU ops on immediates, bpf_add|sub|...: dst_reg += imm32 */
#define BPF_ALU64_IMM(OP, DST, IMM) \
((struct bpf_insn) { \
.code = BPF_ALU64 | BPF_OP(OP) | BPF_K, \
.dst_reg = DST, \
.src_reg = 0, \
.off = 0, \
.imm = IMM })
#define BPF_ALU32_IMM(OP, DST, IMM) \
((struct bpf_insn) { \
.code = BPF_ALU | BPF_OP(OP) | BPF_K, \
.dst_reg = DST, \
.src_reg = 0, \
.off = 0, \
.imm = IMM })
/* Endianess conversion, cpu_to_{l,b}e(), {l,b}e_to_cpu() */
#define BPF_ENDIAN(TYPE, DST, LEN) \
((struct bpf_insn) { \
.code = BPF_ALU | BPF_END | BPF_SRC(TYPE), \
.dst_reg = DST, \
.src_reg = 0, \
.off = 0, \
.imm = LEN })
/* Short form of mov, dst_reg = src_reg */
#define BPF_MOV64_REG(DST, SRC) \
((struct bpf_insn) { \
.code = BPF_ALU64 | BPF_MOV | BPF_X, \
.dst_reg = DST, \
.src_reg = SRC, \
.off = 0, \
.imm = 0 })
#define BPF_MOV32_REG(DST, SRC) \
((struct bpf_insn) { \
.code = BPF_ALU | BPF_MOV | BPF_X, \
.dst_reg = DST, \
.src_reg = SRC, \
.off = 0, \
.imm = 0 })
Annotation
- Immediate include surface: `linux/bpf.h`.
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / tools.
- Implementation status: source implementation candidate.
- Synchronization appears in or near this file; preserve lock ordering, sleepability, and interrupt-context constraints.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.