[PATCH bpf-next 0/2] Clarify and Enhance XDP Rx Metadata Handling

[Song Yoong Siang]

This patch set improves the documentation and selftests for XDP Rx metadata
handling. The first patch clarifies the documentation around XDP metadata
layout and the use of bpf_xdp_adjust_meta. The second patch enhances the
BPF selftests to make XDP metadata handling more robust and portable across
different NICs.

Prior to this patch set, the user application retrieved the xdp_meta by
calculating backward from the data pointer, while the XDP program fill in
the xdp_meta by calculating backward from data_meta. This approach will
cause mismatch if there is device-reserved metadata.

                        |<---sizeof(xdp_meta)--|
                        |                      |
                 struct xdp_meta               rx_desc->address
                        ^                      ^
                        |                      |
+----------+----------------------+------------+------+
| headroom |    custom metadata   |  reserved  | data |
+----------+----------------------+------------+------+
           ^                      ^            ^
           |                      |            |
    struct xdp_meta     xdp_buff->data_meta    xdp_buff->data
           |                      |
           |<---sizeof(xdp_meta)--|

Song Yoong Siang (2):
  doc: clarify XDP Rx metadata layout and bpf_xdp_adjust_meta usage
  selftests/bpf: Enhance XDP Rx Metadata Handling

 Documentation/networking/xdp-rx-metadata.rst  | 38 +++++++++++++++++++
 .../selftests/bpf/prog_tests/xdp_metadata.c   |  2 +-
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_hw_metadata.c     | 10 ++++-
 .../selftests/bpf/progs/xdp_metadata.c        |  8 +++-
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_hw_metadata.c |  2 +-
 tools/testing/selftests/bpf/xdp_metadata.h    |  7 ++++
 6 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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