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Daniel Borkmann says:

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pull-request: bpf-next 2019-04-12

The following pull-request contains BPF updates for your *net-next* tree.

The main changes are:

1) Improve BPF verifier scalability for large programs through two
   optimizations: i) remove verifier states that are not useful in pruning,
   ii) stop walking parentage chain once first LIVE_READ is seen. Combined
   gives approx 20x speedup. Increase limits for accepting large programs
   under root, and add various stress tests, from Alexei.

2) Implement global data support in BPF. This enables static global variables
   for .data, .rodata and .bss sections to be properly handled which allows
   for more natural program development. This also opens up the possibility
   to optimize program workflow by compiling ELFs only once and later only
   rewriting section data before reload, from Daniel and with test cases and
   libbpf refactoring from Joe.

3) Add confi...