bpf tools: Add helper function for updating bpf maps elements

Add bpf_map_update_elem() helper function which calls the sys_bpf
syscall to update elements in bpf maps. Upcoming patches will use it to
adjust data in map through the perf command line.

Signed-off-by: He Kuang <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <[email protected]>
Cc: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Cc: Zefan Li <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
index a6331050ab79..5bdc6eab6852 100644
--- a/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
+++ b/tools/lib/bpf/bpf.c
@@ -83,3 +83,17 @@ int bpf_load_program(enum bpf_prog_type type, struct bpf_insn *insns,
 	log_buf[0] = 0;
 	return sys_bpf(BPF_PROG_LOAD, &attr, sizeof(attr));
 }
+
+int bpf_map_update_elem(int fd, void *key, void *value,
+			u64 flags)
+{
+	union bpf_attr attr;
+
+	bzero(&attr, sizeof(attr));
+	attr.map_fd = fd;
+	attr.key = ptr_to_u64(key);
+	attr.value = ptr_to_u64(value);
+	attr.flags = flags;
+
+	return sys_bpf(BPF_MAP_UPDATE_ELEM, &attr, sizeof(attr));
+}