On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:52 AM Kanthi P <Pavuluri.kanthi@...> wrote:

Hi,

I have two eBPF programs, each with its own user and kernel programs.

One of the programs defines an eBPF map.

How do I access this map from another eBPF kernel program?

In examples/cpp, we have UseExternalMap.cc, which gives an example of
how to share maps between two processes with C++ interface.
Basically, if you know the ID of the map in another application (you
can see id use bpftool), you can get a fd for that map by ID with API
`bpf_map_get_fd_by_id()`, and example shows how to inject the new `fd`
to bcc compilation system.

We do not have a python way to share map yet bwtween two different processes.

Please take a look. If you feel the interface needs to improve to
support your use case, we can do that.

PS:

I can pin the map and that helps me access this map from other program's user space.
But looking for a direct way in which I can access this map from other programs's kernel space.

Thanks!

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 10:45 PM Kanthi P <pavuluri.kanthi@...> wrote:

Thanks for that!

I think those work because bcc has given utilities to do that.

I am using C and we use libbpf to load programs and to do map operations.

Do you know if we can achieve it in this way too?

You should be able to do the work with C as well. Just use APIs from libbpf.h,
e.g., bpf_prog_get_next_id, bpf_prog_get_fd_by_id, bpf_map_get_fd_by_id.
Yes, we may miss bpf_map_get_next_id and bpf_obj_get_info_by_fd.
You can just add prototype to bcc/src/cc/libbpf.h and the implementation
is libbpf submodule.

We can add the missing piece in bcc/src/cc/{libbpf.h, libbpf.c}.

Thanks,
Kanthi

On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 2:21 AM Y Song <ys114321@...> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:52 AM Kanthi P <Pavuluri.kanthi@...> wrote:

Hi,

I have two eBPF programs, each with its own user and kernel programs.

One of the programs defines an eBPF map.

How do I access this map from another eBPF kernel program?

In examples/cpp, we have UseExternalMap.cc, which gives an example of
how to share maps between two processes with C++ interface.
Basically, if you know the ID of the map in another application (you
can see id use bpftool), you can get a fd for that map by ID with API
`bpf_map_get_fd_by_id()`, and example shows how to inject the new `fd`
to bcc compilation system.

We do not have a python way to share map yet bwtween two different processes.

Please take a look. If you feel the interface needs to improve to
support your use case, we can do that.

PS:

I can pin the map and that helps me access this map from other program's user space.
But looking for a direct way in which I can access this map from other programs's kernel space.

Thanks!